It is a 15th-anniversary compilation of some of the performers on Electra. Twelve artists, a song each: Long John, Tom Rush; So Early, Early in the Spring, Judy Collins; Linin’ Track, Koerner, Ray, and Glover; Girl of the North Country, Hamilton Camp; 900 Miles, Dick Rosmini; The Last Thing on My Mind, Tom Paxton; Born in Chicago, Paul Butterfield Blues Band; Fair Beauty Bright, Kathy and Carol; White-Winged Dove, Mark Spoelstra; Blues on the Ceiling, Fred Neil; Rompin’, Rovin’ Days, Bruce Murdoch; Power and Glory, Phil Ochs. Record labels loved to put out samples of their product. Back when the Dillards records were hard to find, I bought Breck Hair Presents a Hootenanny on eBay because it had two of their songs.
Some things don’t change: A young man born in Chicago in 1941 was told to get a gun. Something that did—Elektra said simply 15th anniversary, relying on the schools to have taught its customers that ‘annus’ was Latin for year. The cardboard album cover is long gone. The picture in Discogs features a photo of each artist; I guess Rush, Collins, Ochs, and Paxton were selling the most records because they were in the top row. The Elektra logo is on a blue background in the first ‘O’ in Folksong.
My favorite song of the bunch is by the Butterfield Blues Band.
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