Virginia-born gospel and blues singer Clarence Cooper is among the oft-overlooked figures in the past due-’50s/early-’60s folk music boom. He started his recording profession in the ’50s, having a 10″ recording within the Elektra label entitled Goin’ Later on, documented in 1954, and later on appeared within the label’s New …

Bob Carey was one of the most important — & most tragic — players in the ’50s folk revival picture, regardless of the allegations of some critics that he’s “understandably forgotten.” He was an associate of two essential groups out of this period, the Folksay Trio as well as the …

The Tarriers recorded “Tom Dooley” on the debut album in 1957, a season before the tune became an enormous hit for the Kingston Trio. The group also released and got a minor strike with “The Banana Fishing boat Tune,” before Harry Belafonte documented the same tune and began the calypso …