Tag Archives: Folk Revival

Shirley Collins, though nearly unknown in america, was an important physique in Britain’s early-’60s folk revival as well as the golden age group of Uk folk-rock in the past due ’60s and early ’70s. She actually is one of English folk’s most golden-throated vocalists, and something of its most eclectic, …

Shel Silverstein was one particular rare “multi-threat” performers — composer, singer, cartoonist, illustrator, writer — with popular successes in every of these areas. Created in Chicago in 1930, Sheldon Alan Silverstein 1st attracted see during his military assistance, in Japan and Korea, when he became a cartoonist for the U.S. …

“Paul Campbell” is really a songwriting pseudonym utilized by the original users from the folk group the Weavers — Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman, and Ronnie Gilbert — through the initial phase of the career, 1948-1953. Based on song posting convention, it had been possible to obtain the copyright …

Why don’t more folks find out about Alice Stuart? It’s the best question, since she’s among the very first ladies of rock and roll. She was among the 1st women to accomplish everything: guitarist, innovator of her personal music group, and performer on worldwide rock trips. And she can rock …

Anyone who idea that Randy Sparks’ New Christy Minstrels represented probably the most well-scrubbed component of the folk revival never reckoned using the Serendipity Performers. This mixed-voice non-et, founded on the School of Colorado by Mike Brovsky, H. Brooks Hatch, and Bryan Sennett, produced Sparks’ group appear to be a …

Among Jerry Garcia’s early folk organizations, and the to begin his projects to become documented on the saving, the Hart Valley Drifters formed in 1962 in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. Inspired by works just like the New Shed Town Ramblers, the Stanley Brothers, as well as the performers on Harry …

George “Smoke” Dawson continues to be, by most accounts, and his very own, a mostly itinerant (and frequently impoverished) fiddle and bagpipe participant who passed backwards and forwards between NY and the Western Coast for many years, even though he worked sometimes being a business fisherman, a wrestler, an aerial …

Acting professional and musician Juan Candido Washington Landron was created in 1938 in Puerto Rico but was raised in the Boston, Massachusetts community of Roxbury. While going to Boston’s Emerson University (like a theatre arts main), he started singing in the neighborhood coffeehouses beneath the name Jackie Washington, quickly creating …

Although technically they have only released one album as Stampfel & Weber, 1981’s Going Nowhere Fast, singer/violinist/banjoist Peter Stampfel (b. Oct 29, 1938, in Wauwautosa, WI) and vocalist/guitarist Steve Weber (b. June 22, 1942, in Philadelphia, PA) been employed by together on / off, being a duo and with others, …

When Michigan singer/songwriter Joseph Scott’s main band, Canada, went into a protracted (ultimately permanent) hiatus at the start of 2009, Scott relocated from Michigan to Brooklyn and began focusing on solo recordings within a makeshift real estate studio room. Adapting the name Light Pines from a likewise titled 1900s North …