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THE SIMPLE Riders aren’t mentioned in virtually any reference books on folk music — certainly, one will see no entry in it in virtually any reference focus on popular music from the 20th century, even though they had an enormous hit in early 1957 using the song “Marianne,” and in …

Born in the tiny city of Phoenixville, PA, in 1916, Terry Gilkyson’s tunes would 1 day create a significant hyperlink during folk music’s “dropped” years, the mid-’50s. Like many family members within the ’20s and ’30s, music was a main way to obtain entertainment for the Gilkyson clan. While this …