Dave Van Ronk : Orange Blossom Jug Five - stereo NM
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Dave Van Ronk : The Orange Blossom Jug Five - Skiffle in stereo; Lyrichord Discs, LLST 773. Cover and vinyl = NM. Extremely hard to find because it was printed in extremely tiny numbers, and at the time no one but their friends knew who any of the performers was or would become, so few copies wandered into the hands of the walking around public. I understand even Van Ronk's personal copy was toast (and he was glad).
A very odd album indeed. The band was comprised of Van Ronk, guitar; Sam Charters (when did he sleep?), cornet and guitar; Russell Glynn on jug; Ann Danberg, washboard, and Len Kunstadt, kazoo. Probably recorded and released somewhere about 1958, this was the essence of the "Great Folk Music Scare" of the 50s and 60s - musicians having a great time, hoping to get paid, and/or drunk (free), coupled with a small record company marketing this new-fangled stereo record thing. The liner notes are equally split between making sure you understand these people are all serious musicologists and scholars of the genre, playing notes they have researched and can personally vouch for the veracity of - while the other half is a boxed in explanation of this fab new stereo aimed at technophiles, complete with technical data. And the best part about the technical data is that they neglected to note this album was done in one day (or fraction thereof) in someone's apartment, with the players literally standing in different rooms (which, yes, made it impossible for them to see, and only slightly less possible to hear, what the others were playing, with long microphone cords running every which way.
Occasionally great (Van Ronk contributes 2 originals and sings 6), always entertaining, but it's all great history and certainly what the Scare was all about. A minor miracle.
