...and the tin pan bended and the story ended... is a live album by American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 folksinger Dave Van Ronk

Dave Van Ronk

Dave Van Ronk was an American folk singer, born in Brooklyn, New York, who settled in Greenwich Village, New York, and was eventually nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street" ....

, released in 2004. It was his last concert before his death in 2002 of colon cancer.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic Steve Leggett noted Van Ronk's illness and wrote of the album "Van Ronk's deliberate jazz phrasing is still there, as are the signature guitar skills, but the gruff power in his voice is all but gone, replaced by a soft, hoarse whisper, and there are many times when you can hear his difficulty drawing breath in the spaces between singing. All of this brings a tremendous intimacy and poignancy to several of the songs here... Newcomers to Van Ronk's music should probably sample his earlier albums first, since they give a clearer version of this performer in his prime." Critic Luke Torn of No Depression wrote of the album "This remarkable recording of Van Ronk’s last concert (recorded in October 2001) is the fondest of goodbyes. Generous of spirit, with lots of crazy stories and a full repertoire played with verve and passion, Van Ronk touches on the full spectrum of the American songbook."

Track listing

1. "Down South Blues" (Traditional) – 4:20
2. "Dave Speaks" – 7:34
3. "You've Been a Good Old Wagon" (Henry
   Ben Harney
   Benjamin Robertson "Ben" Harney was a United States of America songwriter, entertainer, and pioneer of ragtime music. His 1895 composition "You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down" is regarded as one of the first published ragtime songs...
   
   ) – 2:04
4. "Dave Speaks" – 2:28
5. "Don't You Leave Me Here" – 3:18
6. "Dave Speaks" – 1:53
7. "Did You Hear John Hurt?" (Paxton
   Tom Paxton
   Thomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years...
   
   ) – 2:34
8. "Dave Speaks" – 5:21
9. "Green, Green Rocky Road" (Chandler
   Len Chandler
   Len Hunt Chandler, Jr. , better known as Len Chandler, is a folk musician from Akron, Ohio.-Biography:He showed an early interest in music and began playing piano at age 8. Studying classical music in his early teens, he learned to play the oboe so he could join the high school band, and during...
   
   , Kaufman) – 3:42
10. "Dave Speaks" – 0:28
11. "Jelly Jelly" (Eckstine
    Billy Eckstine
    William Clarence Eckstine was an American singer of ballads and a bandleader of the swing era. Eckstine's smooth baritone and distinctive vibrato broke down barriers throughout the 1940s, first as leader of the original bop big-band, then as the first romantic black male in popular...
    
    , Hines
    Earl Hines
    Earl Kenneth Hines, universally known as Earl "Fatha" Hines, was an American jazz pianist. Hines was one of the most influential figures in the development of modern jazz piano and, according to one source, is "one of a small number of pianists whose playing shaped the history of jazz".-Early...
    
    ) – 2:49
12. "Nobody Knows You (When You're Down and Out)
    Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
    "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" is a blues standard, written by Jimmy Cox in 1923. Its lyric, told from the point of view of a one-time millionaire during the Prohibition era, reflects on the fleeting nature of material wealth and the friendships that come and go with it.-Recording...
    
    " (Cox) – 3:58
13. "Dave Speaks" – 4:41
14. "One Meatball" (Singer, Zaret
    Hy Zaret
    Hy Zaret was an American Tin Pan Alley lyricist and composer best known as the co-author of the 1955 hit "Unchained Melody", one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century.-Biography:...
    
    ) – 1:56
15. "Buckets of Rain" (Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
    
    ) – 4:01
16. "Dave Speaks" – 1:31
17. "Sometime (Whatcha Gonna Do)" (White
    Josh White
    Joshua Daniel White , better known as Josh White, was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and civil rights activist. He also recorded under the names "Pinewood Tom" and "Tippy Barton" in the 1930s....
    
    ) – 2:37
18. "Sportin' Life Blues" (Brownie McGhee
    Brownie McGhee
    Walter Brown McGhee was a Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaborations with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.-Life and career:...
    
    ) – 4:07
19. "Dave Speaks" – 3:29
20. "Ace in the Hole
    Ace in the Hole
    Ace in the Hole may refer to:Music* Ace in the Hole , the backup band for George Strait* "Ace in the Hole," a 1909 jazz standard written by George D. Mitchell & James E...
    
    " (Dempsey, Mitchell, Van Ronk) – 4:17
21. "Dave Speaks" – 2:57
22. "St. James Infirmary
    St. James Infirmary Blues
    "St. James Infirmary Blues" is based on an 18th century traditional English folk song of anonymous origin, though sometimes credited to the songwriter Joe Primrose . Louis Armstrong made it famous in his influential 1928 recording.-Authorship and history:"St...
    
    " (Primrose
    Irving Mills
    Irving Mills was a jazz music publisher, also known by the name of "Joe Primrose."Mills was born to Jewish parents in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He founded Mills Music with his brother Jack in 1919...
    
    , Traditional) – 3:50
23. "Thank You" – 0:21
24. "Urge for Going" (Joni Mitchell
    Joni Mitchell
    Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...
    
    ) – 4:29

Production notes

• Produced by Christine Lavin, Andrea Vuocolo
• Mitch Greenhill – executive producer
• Engineered by David Eisner
• Assistant engineer – Norman van der Sluys
• Mastered by Phil Klum
• Photography by Joe Deuel, John Isaac, Joel Katz, Aaron Rennert, Dave Peabody
  Dave Peabody
  Dave Peabody is an English singer-songwriter, blues and folk musician, record producer and photographer, active since the late 1960s, who has appeared on more than 60 albums...
  
  , Raymond Sullivan, Sharon Seidel Vargas, Andrea Vuocolo
• Liner notes, annotation by Tom Paxton
  Tom Paxton
  Thomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years...
  
  , Elijah Wald
  Elijah Wald
  Indeed, his first book was a collaboration with his biologist mother entitled Exploding the Gene Myth, in which they wrote that "The myth of the all-powerful gene is based on flawed science that discounts the environment in which we and our genes exist." "There are no definitive histories," he...
  
  
• Design, Layout Design – Sonya Cohen Cramer
• Archivist – Jeff Place