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| Though some purists dismiss Peter Paul amp Mary as the calculated commercial face of the 1960s folk boom there is no denying the large-scale impact and cultural importance of the trio s music With that in mind it s difficult to fault 1970 s TEN YEARS TOGETHER THE BEST OF a concise superbly selected sampler of PP amp M The album plays even all these years later like pure honey from beginning to end thanks entirely to the group s lilting three-part harmonies in which Noel Stookey s baritone and Peter Yarrow s tenor perfectly offset Mary Traver s lovely alto The group s voices and arrangements made shiny cleaned-up hits out of some of the era s slightly rougher-hewn folk classics and the best of those are here including their version of Bob Dylan s Blowin in the Wind Gordon Lightfoot s Early Morning Rain and Pete Seeger s If I Had a Hammer Other tunes in the collection- Lemon Tree and Puff the Magic Dragon among them-have become classics in their own right with the occasional full-band rocker such as the group s take on Dylan s Too Much of Nothing included for good measure BEST OF makes a strongly persuasive case for Peter Paul amp Mary s superstardom and is essential listening for anyone remotely interested in folk |
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