| Somebody Else, Not Me | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Dave Van Ronk |
| Cover: | SomeoneElseNotMeVanRonk.jpg |
| Caption: | Original LP album cover. |
| Released: | 1980 |
| Genre: | Folk |
| Label: | Philo |
| Producer: | Mitch Greenhill, Charles Eller |
| Prev Title: | Sunday Street |
| Prev Year: | 1976 |
| Next Title: | Your Basic Dave Van Ronk |
| Next Year: | 1982 |
Somebody Else, Not Me is a 1980 album by American folk and blues singer Dave Van Ronk.[1]
Somebody Else, Not Me continues Van Ronk's return to basic blues, folk and jazz accompanying himself on guitar. It was reissued (with a slight change of name) as Someone Else, Not Me on CD by Philo in 1999. It was originally to be released in late 1970s as the follow-up to Sunday Street. The cover of Bob Dylan's "Song to Woody" was the second original Dylan song Van Ronk recalled hearing, at the Gaslight Cafe.[2]
The Boston Globe called the album "a powerful, if unfocused, assortment of traditional blues and ragtime, plus a dose of whimsy and more current material."[3]
For AllMusic, critic William Ruhlman wrote: "If the result was not quite the equal of Sunday Street, it was in the same league and continued Van Ronk's mature renaissance."