Down in the Valley: Barn Aid Benefit Concert

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Down in the Valley: Barn Aid Benefit Concert
Barn Aide Brown.jpg
Live album by
Greg Brown, Charlie Parr, Jeff White & the Front Porch
Released2001
RecordedAugust 11, 2001
Genre Folk
Label Independent
Greg Brown chronology
Covenant
(2000)
Down in the Valley: Barn Aid Benefit Concert
(2001)
Milk of the Moon
(2002)

Down in the Valley: Barn Aid Benefit Concert is the title of a live album by folk singer/guitarist Greg Brown with Charlie Parr and Jeff White & The Front Porch.

The Barn Aid benefit's aim was the restoration of the barn at Bubbling Springs Farm. There was no plan to make a recording, but when a fan tape of the concert was found, Brown approved it and gave permission for the release. Brown's label, Red House Records was instrumental in the production, editing and release. Only one pressing was made. [1]

Track listing

All songs performed by Greg Brown unless noted.

  1. "Please Come Back to Me" (Jeff White & The Front Porch)
  2. "Lazy Bones" (Jeff White & The Front Porch)
  3. "Union Tramp" (Charlie Parr & Mikkel Beckmen)
  4. "Ode to a New Dealer" (Charlie Parr & Mikkel Beckmen)
  5. "Tom Bell's Worried Blues" (Traditional) (Charlie Parr & Mikkel Beckmen)
  6. "Billy from the Hills"
  7. "Ella Mae"
  8. "The Way My Baby Calls My Name"
  9. "Hillbilly Girl"
  10. "Verona Road"
  11. "Summer Evening"
  12. "Like a Dog"
  13. "Kind-Hearted Woman Blues" (Robert Johnson) (with Charlie Parr)
  14. "Down in the Valley" (Traditional) (with Charlie Parr & Mikkel Beckmen)
  15. "Last Fair Deal Goin' Down" (Robert Johnson) (with Charlie Parr & Mikkel Beckmen)
  16. "Twelve Gates to the City" (Reverend Gary Davis) (with Charlie Parr & Mikkel Beckmen)

Personnel

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References

  1. Barn Aid website. Accessed June 2008.