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Carolyn Hester - 1965 - At Town Hall
Carolyn Hester is an American folk singer and songwriter. She was a figure in the early 1960s folk music revival. Carolyn Hester's first album was produced by Norman Petty in 1957. In 1960, she made her second album for the label run by the Clancy Brothers. She became known for "The House of the Rising Sun" and "She Moved Through the Fair". Hester was one of many young Greenwich Village singers who rode the crest of the 1960s folk music wave, and appeared on the cover of the May 30, 1964 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. According to Don Heckman of the Los Angeles Times, Hester was "one of the originals—one of the small but determined gang of ragtag, early-'60s folk singers who cruised the coffee shops and campuses, from Harvard Yard to Bleecker Street, convinced that their music could help change the world." Hester was dubbed "The Texas Songbird," and was politically active, spearheading the controversial boycott of TV's Hootenanny when Pete Seeger was blacklisted from it. 01 - Come On Back 02 - Come On In 03 - 10 Train 04 - Captain,my Captain 05 - Water Is Wide 06 - Carry It On 07 - High Flying Bird 08 - Three Young Men 09 - Outward Bound 10 - The Weaving Song 11 - Sing Hallelujah 12 - That's My Song 13 - Summertime 14 - It Takes So Long 15 - Ain't That Rain 16 - Buckeye Jim 17 - Will You Send Your Love 18 - Jute Mill Song 19 - What's That I Hear 20 - Where Did My Little Boy Go 21 - Sidewalk City 22 - I Saw Her 23 - The Bad Girl 24 - Playboys And Playgirls LINK
