b. Harry Everett Smith, 29 Might 1923, Portland, Oregon, USA, d. 27 November 1991, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Smith acquired a lifelong curiosity about the occult and arcane, learning to be a Thelemite, and students of shamanic rituals from the Lummi people and of the Enochian program. In 1986 he …

Preacher, actor, skill scout, and folksinger, Gil Turner qualified like a 20th hundred years renaissance person. He authored the Civil Privileges anthem “MAKE IT On” and was the first ever to record Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ within the Blowing wind” and “DON’T BELIEVE Double.” Turner performed the five-string banjo and 12-sting …

A well-known Greek vocalist and political activist, Maria Farantouri is known as among the most important interpreters of Greek music, specifically the task of composer Mikis Theodorakis. A contralto vocalist having a deep, resonant tone of voice, Farantouri may also be known as the Joan Baez of Greece, and over …

Bruce Langhorne was probably one of the most important program guitarists from the 1960s, particularly in the first many years of folk-rock. He was most well-known for playing on a few of Bob Dylan’s information, particularly 1965’s Getting It All BACK, Dylan’s transitional launch from folk to folk-rock. Nevertheless, he …

Woody Guthrie was the main American folk music artist from the initial fifty percent of the 20th century, partly because he ended up being such a significant influence on the favorite music of the next fifty percent of the 20th century, an interval when he himself was largely inactive. His …

For over 15 years, from 1948 and long lasting in to the early ’60s, Mitch Miller was a significant force within the saving sector. He had not been only one of the very most effective men within the music business for a lot of that period, as the mind of …

Manufacturer and promoter Harold Leventhal was the star-maker who all galvanized the U.S. folk revival of the first 1960s, especially presenting a Bob Dylan in his initial major concert-hall functionality. Delivered May 24, 1919 in Ellenville, NY, Leventhal grew up in NY City’s Decrease East Aspect. He started his music …

Stone Nation was a Hollywood, CA-based psychedelic country-rock clothing led by gifted vocalist/songwriter and guitarist Steve Little. Young, who was raised within the south, shifted to NEW YORK in the first ’60s, where he became associated with the burgeoning Greenwich Community folk music picture. He later shifted to LA in …

Among the initial African musicians to get widespread international acknowledgement, Hamza Un Din is really a Nubian grasp from the oud, or the fretless lute. Traditional western listeners are as most likely as never to have been subjected to his function via the Thankful Dead, who used him on-stage sometimes. …

Folk vocalist/songwriter Tom Jans was created Feb 9, 1948, in Yakima, WA. The boy of the farmer (whose very own mother played within a jazz group dubbed the Rocky Hill Five), he grew up beyond San Jose, CA, weaned in similar measure for the Hank Williams information favorite by his …