Fast Folk: A Community of Singers & Songwriters

Fast Folk: A Community of Singers & Songwriters
Compilation album by Various Artist
Released	February 26, 2002
Recorded	Feb 1982 – February 1, 1997
Genre	Folk music Singer-songwriter
Label	Smithsonian Folkways

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In February 2002, twenty years after the original publication of the magazine Fast Folk, Smithsonian Folkways released a two-CD compilation album of 36 tracks selected from the magazine's fifteen-year history titled Fast Folk: A Community of Singers & Songwriters.

Track listing

Disc 1:

1. "American Jerusalem" (Rod MacDonald) – 5:58
2. "What's Wrong With the Man Upstairs" (David Massengill) – 4:38
3. "Old Factory Town" (Gerry Devine) – 5:12
4. "Just Need a Home (Spotlight)" (Lucy Kaplansky) – 3:38
5. "Another Time and Place" (Dave Van Ronk) – 4:31
6. "I Don't Know Why" (Shawn Colvin) – 3:45
7. "Geza's Wailing Ways" (John Gorka) – 3:53
8. "Ragman!" (David Indian) – 4:03
9. "High Times" (Tom Intondi) – 4:36
10. "Don't Ever Call Your Sweetheart by His Name" (Christine Lavin) – 2:21
11. "Where Were You Last Night?" (Frank Christian) – 4:19
12. "Introduction to Corpo Gracile" (Germana Pucci) – :28
13. "Corpo Gracile" (Germana Pucci) – 5:13
14. "Kilkelly, Ireland" (Laura Burns, Roger Rosen) – 5:58
15. "Introduction to the Viking Rag" (Erik Frandsen) – 1:32
16. "The Viking Rag" (Erik Frandsen) – 2:37
17. "Forget-Me-Not" (Jack Hardy) – 4:20
18. "Vacation" (Bill Bachmann) – 2:41

Disc 2:

1. "Gypsy" (Suzanne Vega) – 4:16
2. "Thirty Thousand Men" (Steve Forbert) – 4:31
3. "Margaret" (Frank Tedesso) – 4:04
4. "Share the Failure" (Elaine Silver) – 2:55
5. "Bourbon as a Second Language" (Patrick John Brayer) – 3:47
6. "King of Hearts" (Paul Kaplan) – 4:10
7. "Heart on Ice" (Judith Zweiman) – 5:04
8. "The Courier" (Richard Shindell) – 5:00
9. "By Your Eyes" (Wendy Beckerman) – 3:22
10. "Danton" (Lillie Palmer) – 4:27
11. "Long Black Wall" (Michael Jerling) – 4:27
12. "Railroad Bill" (Andy Breckman) – 3:32
13. "Gravedigger" (Richard Julian) – 3:18
14. "January Cold" (Richard Meyer) – 5:11
15. "Disenchanted" (Eric Wood) – 4:37
16. "Raphael" (Hugh Blumenfeld) – 3:35
17. "Your Face" (Louise Taylor) – 3:18
18. "Crazy Horse" (Josh Joffen & Late for Dinner) – 3:18

References

1. Pamela Murray Winters, CD Review: Various Artists – Fast Folk: A Community of Singers and Songwriters" ^[usurped] Harp , Summer 2002

External links

• Fast Folk: A Community of Singers and Songwriters album entry at Allmusic