Artist	Song
The Gateway Singers	This Little Light of Mine
The Kingston Trio	Tom Dooley
The Kingston Trio	M.T.A.
The Tarriers	The Banana Boat Song
Oscar Brand	I was Born About 10,000 Years Ago
The Limelighters	Lonesome Traveller
The Clancy Brothers	Whiskey, You're The Devil
Dave Van Ronk	Yas, Yas, Yas
Pete Seeger	Little Boxes
10. Richard & Mimi Farina	Pack Up Your Sorrows
Ian & Sylvia	The Mighty Quinn
Ian & Sylvia	Tomorrow is a Long Time
Ian & Sylvia	Four Strong Winds
Ian & Sylvia	Circle Game
Ian & Sylvia	Someday Soon
Ian & Sylvia	This Wheel's On Fire
Ian & Sylvia	90 x 90
Joan Baez	I Dreamed I saw Joe Hill
Buffy St. Marie	Cripple Creek
Buffy St. Marie	I'm Going to be a Country Girl Again
The Weavers	Banks of Marble
The Weavers	Goodnight Irene
The Weavers	Around the World
Bob Dylan	Blowin' in the Wind
Bob Dylan	Subterranean Homesick Blues

Comment:

This is another companion to the upcoming film A Mighty Wind. These are some of the slick commercial folk groups of the 1950's & 60's, with an emphasis on cheezy cluelessness. This mix is obviously leaning heavily on Ian & Sylvia, a duo I have just re-discovered. At their best, they were the first wave of the Canadian invasion that gave us Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young, but I & S make strange hash out of Bob Dylan songs.
I threw in some live Weavers cuts from their 1963
reunion, for a touch of integrity.

And that brings us up at the end to lonesome Bob Dylan, singing a sincere Blowin' in the Wind and playing the electric chords of betrayal in Subterranean Homesick Blues.

Thanks for reading.

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