At Town Hall by Hester, Carolyn (CD, 1994)

Norman Petty

Bfy, BEAR FAMILY

4000127155207

5046077698

CD

1994

Folk

Hester, Carolyn

At Town Hall

0.40 in

0.25 lb

5.60 in

4.70 in

1

24

1.1 Come on Back 1.2 Come on in 1.3 2:10 Train 1.4 Captain, My Captain 1.5 Water Is Wide 1.6 Carry It on 1.7 High Flying Bird 1.8 Three Young Men 1.9 Outward Bound 1.10 Weaving Song 1.11 Sing Hallelujah 1.12 That's My Song 1.13 Summertime 1.14 It Takes So Long 1.15 Ain't That Rain 1.16 Buckeyed Jim 1.17 Will You Send Your Love? 1.18 Jute Mill Song 1.19 What's That I Hear? 1.20 Where Did My Little Boy Go? 1.21 Sidewalk City 1.22 I Saw Her 1.23 The Bad Girl 1.24 Playboys and Playgirls

In February 1965, Norman Petty recorded Carolyn Hester in concert at New York City's Town Hall. Hester's clear, keening voice, accompanied by George Tomsco's guitar, poured forth with the combination of wistfulness and idealism that characterized the era's folk movement. Equally at home with traditional songs and the work of the era's singer/songwriters (among them Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs), and unafraid of something as ambitious as her own musical setting of Whitman's Captain, My Captain, Hester conveys an intimate involvement with everything she sings. This 24-song CD is a wonderful document of special concert by an overlooked treasure of the folk era.