David Ackles - Five & Dime Plus [1973][FLAC ]

Artist: David Ackles
Release: Five & Dime... Plus
Released: 2004
Label: Raven Records
Catalog#: RVCD-188 / Bonus Tracks
Format: FLAC / Lossless
Country: USA
Style: folk

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1 David Ackles – Everybody Has A Story 2:06
2 David Ackles – I've Been Loved 5:06
3 David Ackles – Jenna Saves 2:30
4 David Ackles – Surf's Down 2:34
5 David Ackles – Berry Tree 2:31
6 David Ackles – One Good Woman's Man 4:19
7 David Ackles – Run Pony Run 2:54
8 David Ackles – Aberfan 4:07
9 David Ackles – House Above The Strand 2:35
10 David Ackles – A Photograph Of You 3:19
11 David Ackles – Such A Woman 3:29
12 David Ackles – Postcards 2:14
Bonus Tracks - Ackles Rendered
13 Spooky Tooth – Down River 4:46
14 Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity – Road To Cairo 5:17
15 Louisa Jane White – Blue Ribbons 3:48
16 Martin Carthy – His Name Is Andrew 5:12
17 Harry Belafonte – Subway To The Country 3:54
18 Stacy Sullivan – Your Face, Your Smile 3:08
19 Hollies, The – Down River 4:03


American Gothic, the predecessor to Five & Dime, was David Ackles' ambitious portrait of American life, in its broad scope and geography and diversity of style. Five & Dime is more a collection of miniatures, still drawn with Ackles' customary eye for detail and sung in his rich, knowing voice. Its pleasures are more subtle than those in the expansive American Gothic, but no less real. (And "Surf's Down," complete with harmonies by Dean Torrence of Jan & Dean, is the wickedest beach music parody since "Back in the U.S.S.R.") This is music of wit, feeling, and sophistication that should be heard by fans of American songcraft from Stephen Foster and Irving Berlin to Randy Newman. Criminally, it was also David Ackles' last album.