ONE MORE TOWN & MISCELLANEA
Both albums on one CD, now available as a Two-Fer!
One More Town was originally released in 1966, their second release included a mix of songs from the singer-songwriter movement including Dylan, Lightfoot, John Stewart, Tommy Makem, Steve Gillette, Ian Tyson, Billy Ed Wheeler, Barry McGuire, Buffy St. Marie, Ewen McColl and even Peggy Lee. This mix reflects their growing repertoire – ballads, love songs, protest songs and songs about drifters, cowboys, miners, laborers and everyday people.
Miscellanea was released in 1967.... it is a compilation, with all kinds of "folk" songs, Old Ballads, modern songs by Dylan, Richard Farina and Gordon Lightfoot, Big City and Country Blues by Chuck Berry and Robert Johnson, an early Vaudeville Ragtime tune, a coal miner's song by Billy Ed Wheeler and two originals, one by Mel Miller – a love song, and the other an instrumental by Julian Laxton.
“These recordings were our most ambitious and we included an eclectic collection of tunes from all genres of the folk-music umbrella, including ballads, country-blues, ragtime, jug band, big-city blues and songs by contemporary singer-songwriters.”
Ox Drivers Song • For Loving Me • Gold Wedding Ring • Don't Think Twice • Hangman • One More Town •Paddy McGinty's Goat • Darcy Farrow • Erev Shel Shoshanim • Red Velvet • Early Morning Rain
Plus BONUS TRACKS* • 5oo Miles • Sorrow and Pain*
* 5oo Miles plus Sorrow & Pain, were the first recordings Mel & Mel ever made, backed up by their friends, blues band, Johnny Sharpe and the Squires
• Sixteen Miles • The Water Is Wide • No Money Down • Gypsy Rover • Fare Thee Well Kirsten • Traveling Riverside Blues • Crazy Words Crazy Tune • Pack Up Your Sorrows • Beverly • Sinner Man • Irish Rover
Plus BONUS TRACKS • Walking Down The Line• Pack up Your Sorrows
* Which were recorded when the group won the Springbok Radio Battle of the Bands!
US & Canada: $20 + S&H • International Orders: $20 + S+H*
ETHNIC / SHMETHNIC
As Mel Miller once said during the folk boom of the 60s: "Bah! Ethnic-shmethnic...
who cares as long as it's good folk music!"
This CD compilation is a collection of the traditional songs that the trio recorded on their three original LPs, during the 60s. It has been compiled as a "public domain" sampler of their interpretation of the music, which shows their command of a wide range of folk music styles from many corners of the globe ... 19th and 20th century rural America, pre-Industrial revolution England, the Gypsies of Europe, life in backwoods Canada, rural Ireland and 17th century Australia.
KATY CLINE • THE WATER IS WIDE • LITTLE BEGGAR MAN • OX DRIVERS SONG • RAMBLE AWAY • GYPSY ROVER • MARY ANNE • IRISH ROVER • SINNER MAN • VAN DIEMANS LAND • HANGMAN • LET ME FLY • BANKS OF THE OHIO
US & Canada: $10 + S+H (US$)
International Orders: $10 + S+H (US$)
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*This album was orininally recorded in 1965 and was previously titled Mel & Mel: "Songs about mines, people, places, and one train" Re-issued in 2005 as "Ethnic/Shmethnic"
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Please contact Mel Green direct at mel_green_1@hotmail.com
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Mel Green, 56 Bennett Street, Brighton, MA 02135, USA
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