The Kingston Trio: The Kingston Trio #16 + Sunny Side! CD Track Listing

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The Kingston Trio The Kingston Trio #16 + Sunny Side! (1963)
2000 Collectors' Choice Music\nThis compilation Released April 11, 2000\nThe Kingston Trio #16 Originally Released March 4, 1963 (Billboard #4)\nSunny Side! Originally Released July 22, 1963 (Billboard #7)\n\nReview Of "The Kingston Trio #16"\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: The trio's 16th album is an engaging collection of John Stewart originals interspersed with a handful of joint compositions and arrangements and two outside numbers. Whatever the makeup of the songwriting, the album is one of the trio's best, a sinewy, exciting collection of performances that yielded the John Stewart-era trio's biggest hit, "Reverend Mr. Black," which made number eight on the charts nationally (and featured the banjo playing of Glen Campbell), but also embraced serious issues ("Road to Freedom") and history ("Mark Twain"), off-Broadway theater ("Try to Remember"), and traditional folk sentiments at their most lyrical and bracing ("Run the Ridges"). The group even found room to fit in a version of "La Bamba" that couldn't sound much less like the Ritchie Valens hit. This was the trio's last great album for Capitol Records. It was reissued in April 2000 paired with Sunny Side!. -- Bruce Eder\n\nReview Of "Sunny Side!"\nThe success of their previous album and the single "Reverend Mr. Black" led to the apparently rushed recording of this album. For all of the feeling of a slapped together LP, right down to the crude artist's drawing of the group (which looks like the art found on the cover of one of those crude Coronet LPs), the singing and playing are fine. The major problem with the album is that too many of the songs here sound like they're stuck at (or shouldn't have gotten past) the demo stage, and probably wouldn't have if the group had been given the time to cut a proper LP. "Rider," "Sing Out," and "Desert Pete" work well; "Jackson," which was later a hit for Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, is interesting to hear; and "Ballad of the Thresher" is a decent example of the group embracing topicality in a song about the lost nuclear submarine. It was reissued in April 2000 paired with Kingston Trio #16. -- Bruce Eder\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: The pairing of these two albums makes sense in that they followed each other very closely in recording date (early/middle 1963) and also in the choice of material ("Desert Pete" from Sunny Side! was a conscious attempt to emulate the success of "Reverend Mr. Black" from Kingston Trio #16). The strength of Kingston Trio #16 more than makes up for the weakness of most of the songs from Sunny Side!, and it is best to think of this CD as Kingston Trio #16 with 11 bonus tracks. -- Bruce Eder\n\nHalf.com Album Credits\nVoyle Gilmore, Producer\n\nAlbum Notes\n2 LPs on 1 CD: #16 (1963)/SUNNY SIDE (1963\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\n#16, October 17, 2001 \nReviewer: Richard Righter from Quantico, Va USA \nMy father's vinyl copy of The Kingston Trio #16 is one of our family's most treasured items, and is one of the greatest albums ever released. Every song was engrained in my head from my earliest memory. My brothers and I have sought another copy for years; we lost hope prior to finding this long overdue CD release.\nEven the great Johnny Cash could not match The Kingston Trio's version of Delia's gone, "One More Round." And "Run the Ridges" is musical perfection - perhaps my favorite song of all time. This song is the high point of the album's incredible intensity of patriot and rebel spirit. This intensity is felt throughout, from the fervent conviction of "The Reverend Mr Black," the heartfelt nostalgia of "Mark Twain," the morbid anguish of "One More Round," to the quiet fury of "Ballad of the Quiet Fighter."\nExtremely listenable, the album provides the full range of emotion and variety while maintaining a consistent, unique sound that shifts effortlessly throughout that spectrum of feeling.\nBottom line - all very cool, classic songs that no one should go through life without hearing, and every American should own. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\n#16 - The very best Kingston Trio recording, June 13, 2000 \nReviewer: Mississippi Fan from Vicksburg, MS \nMy sister purchased #16 when I was about 5 or 6 and played it on a portable record player. This album became the soundtrack to my early memories. I've listened to a lot of Kingston Trio albums, and they are all great, but this is my favorite of all the Kingston Trio albums. #16 features John Stewart's influence in full force. His singing and harmony, tasteful playing, and songwriting really blended well with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane. This album seems to have recieved a little more polished studio treatment than most of their albums instrumentally, but at the same time, they really cut loose vocally with rousing versions of "La Bamba", "Old Joe Hannah", "Big Ball in Town", "Low Bridge", and "Mark Twain". Their solid harmonies shine in more reflective songs like my favorite "Reverend Mr. Black", "Run the Ridges" "Road to Freedom" and the well known "Try to Remember". This is the Kingston Trio album I have been waiting to purchase on CD and I'm very glad to finally see it released. I hope that more of the John Stewart era KT albums are released on CD. I don't know much about the other half of this double CD except for a couple of selections that I've heard on other complilations. But as with all Kingston Trio releases, though, you can't go wrong! \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nBest of KT/John Stewart albums, April 26, 2001 \nReviewer: A music fan from Boise Idaho \nThis too was part of my earliest musical memories at age 3. Of any of the Stewart era (and even Guard era) albums, #16 clearly stands out as one of the best. The trios strength by this point in their musical development, were their original compositions and their delivery in #16 is flawless. John Stewart wrote or co-wrote with Nick and Bob, most of the tunes on the album and their are no duds in this one. From the moody introspection of "Ballad of the Quiet Fighter", to the rip roaring version of "La Bamba" and the superbly crafted "Run the Ridges", this album satisfies from beginning to end. For anyone interested in the most even, musically and compositionally interesting and well produced Stewart era KT album, this is the one to buy. The trio at the top of their game.
This folk cd contains 23 tracks and runs 58min 30sec.
Freedb: 280db417

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