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1. Streets of Old Chicago
2. Hey, Hey
3. Once I Had an Old Banjo
4. El-a-noy
5. I'm a Stranger Here
6. The Cuckoo
7. In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down
8. Down by the Embarras
9. Reek and the Rambling Blade
10. Sloop John B.
11. The Man Who Sings
12. City of New Orleans
13. Buckeye Jim
14. The Glory of Love
The Streets of Old Chicago sounds like what it is - a labor of love. It just "sits well." Mark Dvorak can sing a folk song without hyping it up, trusting us to take our time with it - because he does - and his "City of New Orleans" sounds like it's been around for a hundred years. On "The Cuckoo" he plays a wicked clawhammer banjo. Dvorak's roots are in Chicago but since 1981, he has been criss-crossing the country performing, teaching and learning all the while. He's visited big cities where his concerts and recordings have been hailed as "a refreshing portrait of the living folk tradition," and he's traveled many a back road to some little town or out-of-the-way place where the sounds and songs of the American experience seem more deeply rooted; where his performance comes across like a friendly conversation with neighbors.
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