Various Artists: The Folk Years – Yesterday's Gone

THE 18 TRACKS on this album whisk us back to the hopeful, happy days of America's Hootenanny boom. From the Caribbean lilt of Harry Belafonte's 'Banana Boat (Day-O)' to the spacey jangle of the Byrds' 'Mr. Tambourine Man', the songs speak of a time when hip young Americans thought they could change the world, before the '60s cauldron of drugs, Vietnam and political unrest took popular music culture in a very different direction.