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Masters Of War 3:12 02. The Old Maid's Song 2:40 03. Hey Nelly Nelly 2:36 04. Cu-Cu-Ru-Cu 3:20 05. Tarry Town 2:40 06. Aunt Rhodie 1:36 07. Pastures Of Plenty 2:48 08. Tell Old Bill 3:14 09. Ship In The Sky 2:09 10. Buttermilk Hill 2:48 11. Sally Don't You Grieve 1:46 12. Don't Think Twice It's Alright 3:39 13. The Riddle Song 1:45 14. Plane Crash At Los Gatos 4:44 The Second Album (1965) 15. Someday Soon 3:02 16. Needle Of Death 3:35 17. The Young Ones Move 2:39 18. Guantanamera 2:48 19. The Road Makers 2:00 20. I've Got Nothing But Time 2:48 21. Days Of Decision 2:34 CD 2/2 The Second Album (1965) 01. A Rumbling In The Land 2:34 02. You Won I Lost 2:38 03. When The Ship Comes In 3:10 04. Port Mahon 2:58 05. Space Girl 2:39 06. Judge Jeffries 2:00 07. The Last Thing On My Mind 2:30 The Third Album (1966) 08. To Try For The Sun 3:07 09. John Reilly 3:19 10. The Fox And The Goose 1:59 11. What Did You Learn In School Today 1:41 12. The Maid Of Constant Sorrow 2:44 13. The Gallows Pole 2:02 14. My True Love 3:11 15. One Man's Hands 1:56 16. Going To The Zoo 2:31 17. The Spring Hill Disaster (Ballad Of Spring Hill) 3:02 18. Mound Of Your Grave 2:10 19. Come On Billy Home 1:47 20. I Travelled All Over This World 2:30 ┌────────┐ ────┤ Notes ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── └────────┘ Julie Felix isn't too well-known in her native United States, but since 1964 she's been a major British folk music star and has been compared over there with Joan Baez. Felix was born in California, of mixed Mexican and Native American ancestry. A natural singer by inclination, she was drawn to folk music at an early age but was unable to get a career started in America, even amid the folk revival of the early 60s. In 1964, she decided to go hitchhiking across Europe, and instead of heading home at the end of her travels she made England her destination. She arrived there just in time to catch a fresh wave of enthusiasm for American folk music, fostered by Bob Dylan's emergence internationally as a singer and songwriter. American folk musicians had always found a welcome among England's folk enthusiasts, but just then, thanks to Dylan, the sheer number of folk listeners had ballooned to massive proportions. Felix also found a natural audience for her work - she had an engaging voice and manner, a distinctive Mexican guitar (a gift from her father), and her combined Mexican and Native American backgrounds, which made her stand out from other of her compatriots, who were white and male. And suddenly, Felix had a major career - the same year that she arrived in England, she became the first solo folk performer signed to a major British label when she got a contract from English Decca. Although California-born, Felix found herself in Britain smack dab in the middle of the folk revival in the mid-60s, and with her serviceable voice and exotic good looks, she was soon a poster girl for the UK scene itself, releasing an album a year for Decca Records between 1964 and 1966, all three of which are collected here in this two-disc set. Felix wasn't Joan Baez or Judy Collins, however tempting it might be to make those comparisons, and her albums sound a bit like live sets tracked in the studio, with little embellishment, giving them at times a kind of a those-were-the-days documentary feel. Felix's faintly husky voice sounds fine but gets a bit generic, and the same could be said of her guitar playing, and she sounded pretty much like a thousand other female folk singers on the scene at the time trying their hand at "The Riddle Song". But what Felix did have was a fine ear for recognizing a good contemporary folk song, and these three LPs are full of songs by the likes of Bob Dylan, Ian Tyson, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Donovan, and Bert Jansch, among others, as well as several selections from the Woody Guthrie songbook. Nothing here really sets the world on fire, but Felix rises well above the ordinary on versions of Jansch's "Needle Of Death", Tyson's "Someday Soon", and a jaunty take on Donovan's "To Try For The Sun", and she's never less than pleasant on more traditional fare like "The Maid Of Constant Sorrow" or "The Riddle Song". In the end, though, she's more of a flashback to a particular time and place than she is an enduring folk icon, which doesn't diminish what's here, but it hardly makes it essential, unless, of course, you really want to hear "The Riddle Song" one more time. A timepiece. ┌────────┐ ────┤ Group ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── └────────┘