DAVE VAN RONK: DOWN IN WASHINGTON SQUARE - THE SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS COLLECTION (3 CDS)

Called “The Mayor of MacDougal Street,” Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002) was a leading figure in the Greenwich Village music scene for more than four decades. His autobiography inspired the upcoming Coen Brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis, which features a performance of “Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song)” in both the film and the soundtrack.

Duncan and Brady
River Come Down (Bamboo)
Spike Driver Blues
John Henry
Backwater Blues
K.C. Moan
Haul on the Bowline
Just a Closer Walk with Thee
Gambler's Blues
Sweet Substitute
Bed Bug Blues
Winin Boy
Georgie and the Irt
Betty and Dupree
Come Back, Baby
My Baby's So Sweet
Black Mountain Blues
Ya-Yas-Yas
Willie the Weeper
Dink's Song
Santy Ano
Leave Her, Johnny
Tell Old Bill
Careless Love
Standing By My Window
Please See My Grave Is Kept Clean
If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day
If You Leave Me, Pretty Mama
Hesitation Blues
In the Pines
Oh, What a Beautiful City
Mean Old Frisco
Stackalee
How Long
Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down
House of the Rising Sun
Hootchie Kootchie Man
Reckless Blues
Trouble in Mind
Oh Lord, Search My Heart
God Bless the Child
Losers
Another Time and Place
Garden State Stomp
Motherless Children
Don't You Leave Me Here (I'm Alabama Bound)
Spike Driver Blues
Down South Blues
St. James Infirmary (Gambler's Blues)
Ace in the Hole
Going Down Slow
Buckets of Rain
Jelly Jelly
Sometime (Whatcha Gonna Do)