Alex Campbell
Alex Campbell at the Tivoli Gardens
1967 - Storyville 671 207 LP
2003 - Storyville 5706 CD (re-issue)
Side One
Cindy's Cryin'
Candy Man
Needle Of Death
Tom Thumbs Blues
First Time Ever
The Time Has Come
Side Two
Where I'm Bound
Champion At Keeping Them Rolling
Long Gone From Home
Strolling Down The Highway
He Was A Most Peculiar Man
Sally Free And Easy
Credits
Alex Campbell: vocals, guitar and harmonica
Cy Nicklin: guitar
Robert Lelievre: guitar
Leif Sjberg: bass
Recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1967.
Notes
The above cover is from the 2003 CD re-issue, which is an altered version of the original vinyl LP cover.
This is the CD release of Alex Campbell's second LP for Storyville Records, twelve tunes recorded live in Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, in 1967. The Scottish folk guitarist and singer was the first to actually earn a living playing folk music, and was one of the first to leave Britain for the Continent, eventually settling in Denmark. The genre is contemporary — rather than traditional — folk music, with tunes by Paul Simon, Tom Paxton, Bob Dylan and Bert Jansch, among others, and only one Alex Campbell original. Alex Campbell is a modern European folk legend who helped shape the British and European modern folk scenes in the sixties. The music has an edge; Campbell sings songs from real life: about drugs and rambling, loneliness and love.