Goin' Places (The Kingston Trio Album)
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''Goin' Places'' is the tenth
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by the American
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group
The Kingston Trio The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to the late 1960s. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, ...
, released in 1961 (see
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). It peaked at number three on the
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and spent 41 weeks in the Top 40. The lead-off single was "You're Gonna Miss Me" (a new arrangement of " Frankie and Johnny") which failed to chart. Its
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was "En El Agua" from the earlier ''Make Way'' album. ''Goin' Places'' was the last album recorded with founder
Dave Guard Donald David Guard (October 19, 1934 – March 22, 1991) was an American folk singer, songwriter, arranger and recording artist. Along with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane, he was one of the founding members of the Kingston Trio. Guard was born i ...
as a member.Liner notes: ''Make Way'' and ''Goin' Places'' Capitol Records reissue. Liner notes by Ben Blake, 1992.


History

The day after the completion of the ''Goin' Places'' recording sessions, the Trio embarked on their first foreign tour. After their return, Guard announced his intention to resign from the group. Guard stated in numerous interviews he left the Trio for two main reasons: he was upset with a discrepancy in publishing royalties and he felt the Trio needed to grow musically. The other members, Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane, disagreed on both counts. Guard stayed on to fulfill the group's concert commitments through November and Reynolds and Shane, having decided to keep the group going, hired John Stewart as Guard's replacement. Guard later formed the folk-oriented group Whiskeyhill Singers — which disbanded after one Capitol album and virtually no success — before moving on to other endeavors.Liner notes: ''The Kingston Trio: The Guard Years'', 1997, by Bill Bush. In an interview for ''Frets'' magazine in 1984 and included in the liner notes to '' The Guard Years'', Reynolds stated: "Basically, David wanted to take it on to another level. Bobby and I were just hangin' out, having a good time. We were happy with the format and working way too hard to consider sitting down and learning how to read music... We were killing ourselves as it was with the work, and David was insisting that we take lessons. He was also upset about the publishing thing, and didn't think people were taking care of business, and he became dissatisfied with everything from photography to the management. It might have been an overreaction on Dave's part, but I believe that he honestly wanted to take it to a higher plane..." The Trio's long-time bassist, David "Buck" Wheat is pictured with the group on the cover. The final live performances of the original trio were released in 2007 as '' Live at the Santa Monica Auditorium''.


Reception

Music critic Bruce Eder wrote for
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that the original Trio's final album "shows no sign of the group slackening its standards or rushing through the material." and while praising all the tracks, singled out "Razors in the Air" as "a delightfully played and sung piece of pure fun that gives Dave Guard, in particular, an opportunity to show off his prodigious banjo skills before leaving the lineup of the group he founded."


Reissues

* ''Goin' Places'' was reissued in 1992 on CD by Capitol with ''Make Way''. * In 1984,
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reissued ''Goin' Places'' on a limited edition cassette. *In 1997, all of the tracks from ''Goin' Places'' were included in '' The Guard Years'' 10-CD box set issued by
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. * ''Goin' Places'' was reissued in 2001 by Collectors' Choice Music with ''Make Way''. This reissue has three bonus tracks: "The Golden Spike", "The Wines of Madeira" and "Don't You Weep, Mary".


Track listing

"Coast of California" and "
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" were originally recorded during the '' String Along'' sessions but did not appear for a year until the release of ''Goin' Places''. The former song is " Si me quieres escribir", a Republican song from the
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(possibly learned from
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), with the lyrics rewritten to be politically safe.


Side one

# "You're Gonna Miss Me" (John Cohen, Dave Guard, Tom Paley, Mike Seeger) # " Pastures of Plenty" (
Woody Guthrie Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (; July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer, songwriter, and composer widely considered to be one of the most significant figures in American folk music. His work focused on themes of American Left, A ...
) # "Coast of California" ( Jane Bowers, Guard) # " It Was a Very Good Year" (
Ervin Drake Ervin Drake (born Ervin Maurice Druckman; April 3, 1919 – January 15, 2015) was an American songwriter whose works include such American Songbook standards as " I Believe" and " It Was a Very Good Year". He wrote in a variety of styles and his ...
) # " Guardo el Lobo"https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Riu,_riu,_chiu_(Mateo_Flecha_el_Viejo) ''Riu, riu, chiu'' at ChoralWiki ( Mateo Flecha el Viejo (1556); Erich Schwandt) # "Razors in the Air" (Schwandt)


Side two

# "Billy Goat Hill" (George Arno, James Day) # "
This Land Is Your Land "This Land Is Your Land" is a song by American folk singer Woody Guthrie. One of the United States' most famous folk songs, its lyrics were written in 1940 in critical response to Irving Berlin's " God Bless America". Its melody is based on a ...
" (Guthrie) # "Run Molly, Run" (
Bill Monroe William Smith Monroe ( ; September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American mandolinist, singer, and songwriter who created the bluegrass music genre. Because of this, he is often called the " Father of Bluegrass". The genre takes its n ...
) # "Senora" (Bowers, Guard) # " Lemon Tree" ( Will Holt) # "You Don't Knock" ( Roebuck "Pops" Staples, William Westbrook)


Personnel

*
Dave Guard Donald David Guard (October 19, 1934 – March 22, 1991) was an American folk singer, songwriter, arranger and recording artist. Along with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane, he was one of the founding members of the Kingston Trio. Guard was born i ...
– vocals, banjo, guitar * Bob Shane – vocals, guitar * Nick Reynolds – vocals, tenor guitar, bongos, conga * David "Buck" Wheat – bass, guitar


Chart positions


References


External links


Mr. Guard and the Other Two


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