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Fast Folk: A Community of Singers & Songwriters

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Fast Folk: A Community of Singers & Songwriters
Compilation album by
Various Artist
ReleasedFebruary 26, 2002
RecordedFeb 1982 – February 1, 1997
GenreFolk music
Singer-songwriter
LabelSmithsonian Folkways
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In February 2002, twenty years after the original publication of the magazine Fast Folk, Smithsonian Folkways released a two-CD compilation album of 36 tracks selected from the magazine's fifteen-year history titled Fast Folk: A Community of Singers & Songwriters.

Track listing

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Disc 1:

  1. "American Jerusalem" (Rod MacDonald) – 5:58
  2. "What's Wrong With the Man Upstairs" (David Massengill) – 4:38
  3. "Old Factory Town" (Gerry Devine) – 5:12
  4. "Just Need a Home (Spotlight)" (Lucy Kaplansky) – 3:38
  5. "Another Time and Place" (Dave Van Ronk) – 4:31
  6. "I Don't Know Why" (Shawn Colvin) – 3:45
  7. "Geza's Wailing Ways" (John Gorka) – 3:53
  8. "Ragman!" (David Indian) – 4:03
  9. "High Times" (Tom Intondi) – 4:36
  10. "Don't Ever Call Your Sweetheart by His Name" (Christine Lavin) – 2:21
  11. "Where Were You Last Night?" (Frank Christian) – 4:19
  12. "Introduction to Corpo Gracile" (Germana Pucci) – :28
  13. "Corpo Gracile" (Germana Pucci) – 5:13
  14. "Kilkelly, Ireland" (Laura Burns, Roger Rosen) – 5:58
  15. "Introduction to the Viking Rag" (Erik Frandsen) – 1:32
  16. "The Viking Rag" (Erik Frandsen) – 2:37
  17. "Forget-Me-Not" (Jack Hardy) – 4:20
  18. "Vacation" (Bill Bachmann) – 2:41

Disc 2:

  1. "Gypsy" (Suzanne Vega) – 4:16
  2. "Thirty Thousand Men" (Steve Forbert) – 4:31
  3. "Margaret" (Frank Tedesso) – 4:04
  4. "Share the Failure" (Elaine Silver) – 2:55
  5. "Bourbon as a Second Language" (Patrick John Brayer) – 3:47
  6. "King of Hearts" (Paul Kaplan) – 4:10
  7. "Heart on Ice" (Judith Zweiman) – 5:04
  8. "The Courier" (Richard Shindell) – 5:00
  9. "By Your Eyes" (Wendy Beckerman) – 3:22
  10. "Danton" (Lillie Palmer) – 4:27
  11. "Long Black Wall" (Michael Jerling) – 4:27
  12. "Railroad Bill" (Andy Breckman) – 3:32
  13. "Gravedigger" (Richard Julian) – 3:18
  14. "January Cold" (Richard Meyer) – 5:11
  15. "Disenchanted" (Eric Wood) – 4:37
  16. "Raphael" (Hugh Blumenfeld) – 3:35
  17. "Your Face" (Louise Taylor) – 3:18
  18. "Crazy Horse" (Josh Joffen & Late for Dinner) – 3:18

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