In February 2002, twenty years after the original publication of the magazine Fast Folk, Smithsonian Folkways released a two-CD compilation album of 36 tracks selected from the magazine's fifteen-year history titled Fast Folk: A Community of Singers & Songwriters.
Track listing
Disc 1: "American Jerusalem" (Rod MacDonald) – 5:58 "What's Wrong With the Man Upstairs" (David Massengill) – 4:38 "Old Factory Town" (Gerry Devine) – 5:12 "Just Need a Home (Spotlight)" (Lucy Kaplansky) – 3:38 "Another Time and Place" (Dave Van Ronk) – 4:31 "I Don't Know Why" (Shawn Colvin) – 3:45 "Geza's Wailing Ways" (John Gorka) – 3:53 "Ragman!" (David Indian) – 4:03 "High Times" (Tom Intondi) – 4:36 "Don't Ever Call Your Sweetheart by His Name" (Christine Lavin) – 2:21 "Where Were You Last Night?" (Frank Christian) – 4:19 "Introduction to Corpo Gracile" (Germana Pucci) – :28 "Corpo Gracile" (Germana Pucci) – 5:13 "Kilkelly, Ireland" (Laura Burns, Roger Rosen) – 5:58 "Introduction to the Viking Rag" (Erik Frandsen) – 1:32 "The Viking Rag" (Erik Frandsen) – 2:37 "Forget-Me-Not" (Jack Hardy) – 4:20 "Vacation" (Bill Bachmann) – 2:41
Disc 2: "Gypsy" (Suzanne Vega) – 4:16 "Thirty Thousand Men" (Steve Forbert) – 4:31 "Margaret" (Frank Tedesso) – 4:04 "Share the Failure" (Elaine Silver) – 2:55 "Bourbon as a Second Language" (Patrick John Brayer) – 3:47 "King of Hearts" (Paul Kaplan) – 4:10 "Heart on Ice" (Judith Zweiman) – 5:04 "The Courier" (Richard Shindell) – 5:00 "By Your Eyes" (Wendy Beckerman) – 3:22 "Danton" (Lillie Palmer) – 4:27 "Long Black Wall" (Michael Jerling) – 4:27 "Railroad Bill" (Andy Breckman) – 3:32 "Gravedigger" (Richard Julian) – 3:18 "January Cold" (Richard Meyer) – 5:11 "Disenchanted" (Eric Wood) – 4:37 "Raphael" (Hugh Blumenfeld) – 3:35 "Your Face" (Louise Taylor) – 3:18 "Crazy Horse" (Josh Joffen & Late for Dinner) – 3:18
References
External links [ Fast Folk: A Community of Singers and Songwriters] album entry at Allmusic