| To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places | ||||
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| Released | 1994 | |||
| Recorded | June 1993-August 1994 | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Length | 95:27 | |||
| Label | Gazell [1] | |||
| Producer | Sam Charters [2] | |||
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To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places is a 1994 album by the American musician Dave Van Ronk. [3] [4] He performed versions of songs written by people he knew. Van Ronk spent 18 months working on the album. [5] Christine Lavin sang on To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places. [6]
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [7] |
| Robert Christgau |  [8] |
Writing for AllMusic, critic Bruce Eder praised the album and wrote: "Van Ronk does remarkably well with this material—he holds a tune less effectively than Dylan, but he also imparts a special rawness and seriousness to the songs, his voice overflowing with the sound of seemingly bitter experience... Not all of it works — his voice is sometimes way too rough even by folk-blues standards for what he's trying to do — but most of it is extremely valuable. And his cover of 'Soon My Work Will All Be Done' is one of Van Ronk's greatest performances ever." [7]
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