Sunday Street is an album by American

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 folk and blues singer 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 1976.

History

Sunday Street is Van Ronk and his guitar only. He takes on some ragtime with favorites such as The Pearls and Maple Leaf Rag as well as a return to more traditional folk and blues.

Sunday Street was re-released on CD in 1999.

Reception

Allmusic stated in their review "Van Ronk never hid his influences, but he never sounded exactly like them, either, and on this album he was very much himself. Maybe it is his greatest single album; it is certainly one of his most representative."

Track listing

1. "Sunday Street" (Van Ronk) – 3:27
2. "Jesus Met the Woman at the Well" (Traditional) – 5:34
3. "Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning" (Traditional) – 3:51
4. "Maple Leaf Rag" (Scott Joplin
   Scott Joplin
   Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions, and was later dubbed "The King of Ragtime". During his brief career, Joplin wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas...
   
   ) – 3:59
5. "Down South Blues" (Traditional) – 4:35
6. "Jivin' Man Blues" (Traditional) – 3:03
7. "That Song About the Midway" (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...
   
   ) – 3:33
8. "The Pearls" (Jelly Roll Morton
   Jelly Roll Morton
   Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe , known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer....
   
   ) – 4:29
9. "That'll Never Happen No More" (Traditional) – 3:48
10. "Mamie's Blues" (Traditional) – 4:19
11. "Swinging on a Star
    Swinging on a Star
    "Swinging on a Star" is an American pop standard with music composed by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke. It was sung by Bing Crosby in the 1944 film Going My Way, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song that year, and has been recorded by numerous artists since...
    
    " (Johnny Burke
    Johnny Burke (lyricist)
    Johnny Burke was a lyricist, widely regarded as one of the finest writers of popular songs in America between the 1920s and 1950s.-Biography:...
    
    , Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:38