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Painter, illustrator, vocalist/songwriter, and folksinger Eric Von Schmidt was a spearhead from the folk revival that swept through Cambridge, Massachusett’s Harvard Square in the first ’60s. When he wasn’t hosting late-night jam classes at his house/studio room, Von Schmidt was carrying out Leadbelly-influenced tunes in coffeehouses and uplifting several decades …

Greenwich Village-based Frank Christian is among modern folk music’s virtuosic guitarists. His heartfelt melodies possess strengthened shows and/or recordings by Nanci Griffith, Christine Lavin, Suzanne Vega, John Gorka, Dave Vehicle Ronk as well as the Smithereens. Christian is definitely equally skilled like a songwriter and vocalist. His tune “Three Plane …

A medicine display performer within the 1910s and 1920s, Clarence (Tom) Ashley influenced the metropolitan folk revival when his early recordings were included on the Folkways album Anthology of American Folk Music in 1952. Although he previously retired through the medicine present circuit in 1943, he produced a successful return …

Christine Lavin emerged from the crowded NEW YORK songwriter scene from the ’80s with a method that recognized her from her peers. Initial, her songs had been overwhelmingly worried about contemporary intimate mores (that frightening, uncertain globe of “interactions,” “commitments,” and “natural clocks”). Second, while her assumes this subject matter …

In the current climate of the blues band seemingly on every single corner with “another Stevie Ray Vaughan” being touted almost every other tiny, it’s hard to assume a period when being truly a white blues singer was taken into consideration sort of a novelty. However in those heady situations …

Created in Seattle by several northwestern transplants, the top as well as the Heart can be an indie folk strap whose influences consist of Americana, country-rock, and classic Beatlesque pop. The lineup arrived together in ’09 2009, when songwriters Jonathan Russell and Josiah Johnson fulfilled at an open-mike event at …