John Jacob Niles - Evening with John Jacob Niles: The Tradition Years

As seen in the recent Martin Scorcese directed Bob Dylan documentary No Direction Home, John Jacob Niles was a major influence and key progenitor of the 1950's folk resurgence in America. Historian, musicologist, performance artist Niles was one of the first American folk artists to take traditional material and completely make it his own, years before a young Bob Dylan started channeling Woody Guthrie. Today the late, great John Jacob Niles is admired by a new generation of folk enthusiasts and will no doubt inspire generations to come. An Evening with John Jacob Niles was originally released in 1959 and was Niles second album for the Tradition label. Our first Niles release, I Wonder As I Wander has received numerous accolades from the music press and the many folk enthusiasts who purchased the CD. Like our previous Niles release, to the delight of folk fans everywhere, An Evening with appears for the first time on CD.

1) The Carol of the Birds
2) Jack Odiamonds
3) The Turtle Dove
4) I'm in the Notion Now
5) Sing We the Virgin Mary
6) Lulle Lullay
7) The Black Dress
8) The Cuckoo
9) O Waly O Waly
10) When I Gets Up Into Heaven
11) The Frog in the Spring
12) The Seven Joys of Mary
13) The Roving Gambler
14) You Got to Cross That Lonesome Valley