By now, the story is familiar: angry folk music purists were incensed at Bob Dylan, whom they had begun to revere as an eccentric, but ingenious, songwriter. Like a Messianic figure, he had come out of nowhere to New York […]
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Reading Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan & the Night that Split the Sixties (Dey Street/Harper-Collins Publishers, 2015) reproduces in wonderful, eye-opening detail the environment of the Newport Folk Festival during July of 1965, when Bob Dylan appeared onstage on […]
Dig into the résumé of folk singer-songwriter Bill Staines and there’s one item that sticks out. It’s not the fact that he’s now in his 50th year as a professional musician. It’s not that his catalog of songs has been […]
By Joel Barrett Some fans may consider him the “first name” in folk music. That may be debatable, but he is definitely the first name of the iconic folk group Peter, Paul and Mary — the trio that carried a generation […]
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