2016 -incl. booklet - Jerry Garcia (banjo, guitar & lead vocals), Ken Frankel (banjo, fiddle & guitar), Robert Hunter (bass & backing vocals), Norm Van Maastricht (dobro) & David Nelson (guitar & backing vocals) - Folk Time was recorded in 1962 by a bunch of Bay Area 20-somethings who were on an earnest quest for real American folk music. They wanted to hear it and learn to play it. So to the untrained ear, these songs will sound like what we expect that music to sound like. But aficionados will undoubtedly hear good intentions, but a serious lack of authenticity. The Hart Valley Drifters mostly focused on spirited renditions of traditional songs such as, “Roving Gambler,” “Standing In The Need of Prayer,” “Cripple Creek” as well as the Ralph Stanley composition “Clinch Mountain Backstep” and Earl Scruggs’ “Ground Speed” and “Flint Hill Special.” The session ends with a take on the Walter Jacobs Vinson/Lonnie Carter classic “Sitting On Top Of The World,”, which Garcia brought to the Grateful Dead in time for inclusion on the band’s first studio album.
16 Songs
- Band Introductions
- ROVING GAMBLER
- GROUND SPEED
- PIG IN A PEN
- STANDING IN THE NEED OF PRAYER
- FLINT HILL SPECIAL
- NINE POUND HAMMER
- HANDSOME MOLLY
- CLINCH MOUNTAIN BACKSTEP
- THINK OF WHAT YOU'VE DONE
- CRIPPLE CREEK
- ALL THE GOOD TIMES HAVE PAST AND GONE
- BILLY GRIMES, THE ROVER
- PADDY ON THE TURNPIKE (BOYS , MY MONEY'S ALL GONE)
- RUN MOUNTAIN
- SUGAR BABY
- SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD
