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Farewell, Angelina (song)
"Farewell, Angelina" is a song written by Bob Dylan in the mid-1960s, and most famously recorded by Joan Baez. Inspiration According to Bob Dylan: ''All the Songs'', an 1850s Scottish sailors' song by George Scroggie titled '' Farewell to Tarwathie'' provided the skeleton of the song's melody. That song, in turn, had been inspired by the old traditional tune, Wagoner's Lad. Recording Dylan attempted to record "Farewell Angelina" only once, during the first session for his 1965 album ''Bringing It All Back Home'', and he abandoned all attempts to record the song again. Dylan's one recording of the song was eventually issued in 1991 on ''The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991'' and again on '' The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966''. Joan Baez's version Joan Baez included this song on her 1965 album ''Farewell, Angelina''. In the UK the song was issued at the same time as a single. Baez' version, though only about half as long as Dyla ...
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his nearly 70-year career. With an estimated more than 125 million records sold worldwide, he is one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling musicians of all time. Dylan added increasingly sophisticated lyrical techniques to the folk music of the early 1960s, infusing it "with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry". His lyrics incorporated political, social, and philosophical influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning Counterculture of the 1960s, counterculture. Dylan was born in St. Louis County, Minnesota. He moved to New York City in 1961 to pursue a career in music. Following his 1962 debut album, ''Bob Dylan (album), Bob Dylan'', featuring traditional folk and blues material, he released his ...
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Live At Newport (Joan Baez Album)
''Live at Newport'' is a live album by American singer and musician Joan Baez, released in 1996. It includes performance from 1963, 1964 and 1965 at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island. Allmusic entry for ''Live at Newport''/ref> The final two tracks are duets with Bob Dylan. Track listings # "Farewell, Angelina" (Bob Dylan) – 3:41 # "Long Black Veil" (Marijohn Wilkin, Danny Dill) – 3:11 # "Wild Mountain Thyme" (Francis McPeake) - 4:48 # " Come All You Fair and Tender Maidens" (Public Domain) - 3:57 # "Lonesome Valley" (Traditional) - 3:39 # "Hush Little Baby" (Public Domain) – 1:07 # "Te Ador/Te Manha" (Jungnickle, Traditional) – 3:57 # "All My Trials" (Traditional) - 4:38 # "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Dylan) – 3:55 # "The Unquiet Grave" (Traditional) - 3:03 # " Oh, Freedom" (Traditional) - 3:15 # "Satisfied Mind" (Jack Rhodes) - 3:13 # "Fennario" (Public Domain) – 3:47 # "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (Dylan) – 3:37 # "Johnny Cuckoo" ( B ...
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Nana Mouskouri
Ioanna "Nana" Mouskouri ( ; born 13 October 1934) is a Greek singer and politician. Over the span of her career, she has released an estimated 450 albums in at least thirteen languages, including Greek language, Greek, French language, French, English language, English, German language, German, Dutch language, Dutch, Portuguese language, Portuguese, Italian language, Italian, Japanese language, Japanese, Spanish language, Spanish, Hebrew language, Hebrew, Welsh language, Welsh, Mandarin Chinese and Corsican language, Corsican. Mouskouri became well known throughout Europe for the song "The White Rose of Athens", recorded first in German as "Weiße Rosen aus Athen" as an adaptation of her Greek song "" (''San sfyríxeis tris forés'', "When you whistle three times"). It became her first record to sell over one million copies. Later, in 1963, she represented Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "À force de prier", finishing eighth. Her friendship with the comp ...
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French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-Romance, a descendant of the Latin spoken in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien language, Francien) largely supplanted. It was also substratum (linguistics), influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul and by the Germanic languages, Germanic Frankish language of the post-Roman Franks, Frankish invaders. As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, it was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole, were established. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Fra ...
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Hugues Aufray
Hugues Jean Marie Auffray (; born 18 August 1929), better known as Hugues Aufray, is a French singer-songwriter. He is known for French-language covers of Bob Dylan's songs. Aufray knew Dylan and his work from his time in New York City,Ian Bell, ''Once Upon a Time'' (London 2013) p. 215 as well as from record shops, and his translations capture the rawness of the original songs. His most famous original songs are " Santiano", " Céline", "Stewball" and "Hasta Luego". Early life Aufray was born to Henry Auffray, an industrialist,« Biographie d'Hugues Aufray »
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and Amyelle de Caubios d'Andiran (1898-1992), a musician and second cousin of the French author

Pierre Delanoë
Pierre Charles Marcel Napoléon Leroyer (16 December 1918 – 27 December 2006), known professionally as Pierre Delanoë (), was a French lyricist who wrote thousands of songs for dozens of singers, including Dalida, Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Petula Clark, Johnny Hallyday, Joe Dassin, Michel Sardou and Mireille Mathieu. Career Pierre Leroyer was born in Paris. For his professional career, he adopted his grandmother's maiden name Delanoë. After obtaining a law degree, he began a career as a tax collector, and later a tax inspector. After World War II, he met Gilbert Bécaud and began working as a lyricist. For a period, he even performed alongside Bécaud in clubs. They penned some of France's best loved songs, including "Et maintenant", translated into English as " What Now My Love", which was covered by artists including Agnetha Fältskog, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, the Supremes, Sonny & Cher, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass and the Temptations. ...
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Show Of Hands
Show of Hands is an English acoustic roots/ folk duo formed in 1986 by singer-songwriter Steve Knightley (guitars, mandolin, mandocello, cuatro) and composer and multi-instrumentalist Phil Beer (vocals, guitars, violin, viola, mandolin, mandocello). Joined by singer and double-bassist Miranda Sykes for a tour in 2004, Show of Hands continued to regularly perform as a trio with Sykes, as well as in their original format. The line-up was further expanded in 2019 by the addition of Irish percussionist Cormac Byrne. Known for their songs with rousing choruses that address contemporary social issues,fRoots magazine Dec 2016. issue 402 (notably their "singalong attack on the bankers," Arrogance Ignorance and Greed) these often illustrate current concerns through historical narratives and have earned Knightley the label the 'Gravel voiced spokesman of the rural poor'. Rooted in English traditional music the songs are shot through with diverse influences from music across the world, ...
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Tim O'Brien (musician)
Timothy O'Brien (born March 16, 1954) is an American country and bluegrass musician. In addition to singing, he plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki and mandocello. He has released more than ten studio albums, in addition to charting a duet with Kathy Mattea entitled "The Battle Hymn of Love", a No. 9 hit on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts in 1990. In November 2013 he was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame. Early life Tim O'Brien was born on March 16, 1954, and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, the youngest in a family of five children. At the age of 12, he first heard a Bob Dylan record, played by his older sister Mollie, afterwards deciding to take up music. Throughout his teens, he taught himself to play guitar, violin, and mandolin. In high school, he and his sister Mollie, a singer, began performing Peter, Paul, and Mary songs as a duo at church and local coffeehouses. Music career Ho ...
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Rough Harvest
''Rough Harvest'' is the 16th album by American singer John Mellencamp, a collection of alternate, acoustic arrangements of his favorite tracks, as well as several covers, released on August 17, 1999. Recorded mostly in 1997 (with the exception of "Under the Boardwalk", which was recorded in 1986, and "Wild Night" in 1994), the album fulfilled Mellencamp's contractual obligation with Mercury Records. "It was very easy for me," Mellencamp told the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch''s Kevin C. Johnson of the acoustic arrangements on ''Rough Harvest'' in a September 30, 1999, article. "Actually, every song I ever wrote I wrote on acoustic guitar first. That's pretty much how the songs sound before I put electricity to them. When I start arranging, it's a big step when you have to add a band to the song." On his cover of "Under the Boardwalk," which was originally the B-side of his 1986 hit " R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A." and was performed live on the Scarecrow Tour and The Lonesome Jubilee Tour ...
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John Mellencamp
John J. Mellencamp (born October 7, 1951), previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for his brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, followed by an induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018. Mellencamp found success in the 1980s starting in 1982, with a string of top 10 singles, including "Hurts So Good", "Jack & Diane", "Crumblin' Down", "Pink Houses", "Lonely Ol' Night", "Small Town", "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.", "Paper in Fire", and "Cherry Bomb (John Mellencamp song), Cherry Bomb". He has scored fourteen top 20 hits in the United States. In addition, he holds the record for the most songs by a solo artist to hit number one on the Mainstream Rock (chart), Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, with seven. Mellencamp has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, winning one. He has sold over 60 million albums ...
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Oh, What A Mighty Time
''Oh, What a Mighty Time'' is an album by the country rock band New Riders of the Purple Sage. Their sixth studio album and their seventh album overall, it was released by Columbia Records in 1975. ''Oh, What a Mighty Time'' was produced by Bob Johnston. Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead plays electric guitar, guitar on three songs,''Oh, What a Mighty Time''
at the Grateful Dead Family Discography and Sly Stone plays keyboard instrument, keyboards and sings on one song.


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#"Mighty Time" (Don Nix) – 5:13 #"I Heard You Been Layin' My Old Lady" (Rusty Wier, Russell Wier) – 3:24 #"Strangers on a Train" (Skip Battin, Kim Fowley) – 2:45 #"Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother" (Ray Wylie Hubbard) – 4:13 #"Take a Letter Maria, Take a Letter, Maria" (R. B. Greaves) – 4:07 #"Little Old Lady" ( ...
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New Riders Of The Purple Sage
New Riders of the Purple Sage is an American country rock band. The group emerged from the psychedelic rock scene in San Francisco in 1969 and its original lineup included several members of the Grateful Dead. The band is sometimes referred to as the New Riders or as NRPS. History Origins: early 1960s–1969 The roots of the New Riders can be traced back to the early 1960s San Francisco Peninsula, Peninsula American folk music revival, folk/beatnik scene centered on Stanford University's now-defunct Perry Lane housing complex in Menlo Park, California where future Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia often played gigs with like-minded guitarist David Nelson (musician), David Nelson. The young John Dawson (musician), John Dawson (also known as "Marmaduke") also played some concerts with Garcia, Nelson, and their compatriots while visiting relatives on summer vacation. Enamored of the sounds of Bakersfield sound, Bakersfield-style country music, Dawson would turn his older friend ...
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