LM Dupli-Cation LP LM4: JOHN JACOB NILES - Boone-Tolliver Recordings 2012 USA SS
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Background -

John Jacob Niles (April 28, 1892—March 1, 1980) was an American composer, singer, and collector of traditional ballads. Called the "Dean of American Balladeers", Niles was an important influence on the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, with Joan Baez, Burl Ives, and Peter, Paul and Mary, among others, recording his songs.

Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Niles learned music theory from his mother, and began writing down folk music as a teenager. He became a serious student of Appalachian folk music by transcribing traditional songs from oral sources while an itinerant employee of the Burroughs Corporation in eastern Kentucky, from 1910 to 1917. After serving in the U.S. Army Air Service during World War I, in which he was injured, he studied music in France, first in Lyon, then in Paris at the Schola Cantorum, also meeting Gertrude Stein. Returning to the United States in 1920, he continued his studies at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music working there with Ralph Lyford. He sang opera in Chicago and folk songs on early radio. In 1925, he moved to New York City and held various jobs in the entertainment industry. In the 1930s, he toured Europe and the United States with contralto Marion Kerby. He performed at the White House in 1938, and on occasion at the Newport Folk Festival during the 1950s.

In the 1920s, Niles began publishing music. He made four extended trips into the southern Appalachians as an assistant to photographer Doris Ulmann, again transcribing traditional songs from oral sources, including the ballads "Pretty Polly", "Barbara Allen", and "He's Goin' Away". On other occasions, he transcribed songs he heard sung by African Americans and by fellow soldiers in World War I.

Niles was also a noted songwriter. His songs, many of which are based on traditional sources, include "Venezuela," and the haunting Christmas song "I Wonder As I Wander." Henry Miller's Plexus includes a powerful tribute to Niles's recording of this song. Niles composed "Go 'Way From My Window" when he was a mere 16 years old, but did not perform it until 1930. Marlene Dietrich recorded it and sang it on stage. Bob Dylan quoted its first line in his song "It Ain't Me Babe." Later in life, Niles published compositions in a more classical style, including works for choir and art songs for voice and piano. The latter include his last work, a setting of poems by Thomas Merton.

Starting in 1938, he recorded a number of his compositions and transcribed songs, performing the material in an intense, dramatic manner. He employed a trademark very high falsetto to portray female characters, and often accompanied himself on an Appalachian dulcimer, lute, or other plucked stringed instrument.

In 1936, he married Rena Lipetz. They settled on the Boot Hill farm in Clark County, Kentucky, where they spent the rest of their lives. Niles died in Lexington, Kentucky on March 1, 1980 at age 87. He is buried at the nearby St. Hubert's Episcopal Church. The John Jacob Niles Center for American Music at the University of Kentucky is named after him, and displays a number of traditional instruments he handcrafted.

This album, "The Boone-Tolliver Recordings" is a vinyl LP pressing, comprising an archive collection from the Folk singer. In the 1950s, while audio recording was still an astronomically expensive art, limited to the laboratory-like environment of the professional studio, a few forward-thinking artists began to experiment with the idea of home recording. Sun Ra in Chicago and Les Paul in New York made history away from the studios. And deep in Appalachia, John Jacob Niles recorded a series of EPs in the place where he was most comfortable singing: his living room.

  • LP made by LM DUPLI-CATION Records, in the USA

  • LP released in 2012

  • LP is recorded in MONO

  • Record Catalog Number: LM 4

  • UPC # 655035043418

This listing is for a rare, out of print LP title - a BRAND NEW, MINT and SEALED LP PRESSED and ISSUED by LM DUPLI-CATION Records of a highly collectible title from their catalog - a superb title featuring -

John Jacob Niles

LP title and music on this rare item -

The Boone-Tolliver Recordings

Performers include -

    John Jacob Niles

    Track Listing -
    1. I'm Goin' Away
    2. The Lass From the Low Country (Oh Sorrow)
    3. Go 'Way From My Window
    4. The Cuckoo
    5. Barbary Ellen
    6. Little Mattie Groves
    7. The Turtle Dove
    8. Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair
    9. Mary Hamilton
    10. The Little Mohee
    11. The Rosy Peach
    12. The Gypsy Laddie
    13. Oh Waly, Waly

    CONDITION Details:

    The LP jacket is in mint condition! The jacket is brand new and sealed (see pictures with this listing as they are of the actual item). 

    The LP is in mint condition! The LP is brand new and never opened - comes SEALED!

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    • Very Good Plus = Many more imperfections which are noticeable and obtrusive.

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