“The Folk Years” — compilation; StarVista Entertainment, (click here to order)  Time Life Music

Peter Paul & Mary

This box set has eight CDs, a DVD, and a songbook jam-packed with the folk music of the very-late 50s, the 60s and into the 70s, the era ripe with recognizable lyrics, harmonies, and guitar licks, an era never since been as romantically or as life-changing-ly duplicated.

The songs are as they were released, with some quality re-mastering using the technology  of today versus that available when the songs were originally recorded. The recordings are clear and as poignant as when they first dominated the charts.

From the famous Peter, Paul & Mary to the lesser-known but equally talented Gale Garnett, this box set features them all, including Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger, Jerry Jeff Walker, Tom Paxton, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and The Band, the Grateful Dead, Bobby Darin and Bob Dylan, and dozens more. One hundred twenty songs taking one back in time and memory.

This set, available through Time Life Music , timelifemusic.com, or check the videos and recordings out before buying it on YouTube.

For “The Folk Years” video, click here:   This is narrated by my old friend, Noel Stuckey (Paul of Peter Paul & Mary. Met all three of them, had a conversation at length with Mary who became a grandmother only months after I did, and she wasn’t really thrilled with the prospect, saying, “What are we going to call the band now, Peter Paul & Grandma?”) Hi, Noel! I love you! And Peter, too!