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Title: Elijah Wald talk on The Greenwich Village Folk Music scene of the 50's-60-s
Post by: Mr.OMuck on April 07, 2013, 11:49:25 AM

Many of you will find this very interesting. It focuses a great deal on Dave Van Ronk and the New Lost City Ramblers. He talks about Rev. Davis and Sam Charters as well. It is the scene that gave birth to our scene, whatever that is. ;)


http://youtu.be/7ybB8Hur4HA (http://youtu.be/7ybB8Hur4HA)

Title: Elijah Wald talk on The Greenwich Village Folk Music scene of the 50's-60-s
Post by: uncle bud on April 11, 2013, 04:54:31 AM

Thx for this, definitely worth a gander. Elijah is informative (and smirky) as always.

He mentions the Gary Davis documentary having some great footage of RGD at Newport. Anyone know when this will be.more widely available? Seen it?

Title: Re: Elijah Wald talk on The Greenwich Village Folk Music scene of the 50's-60-s
Post by: Pan on April 11, 2013, 09:25:22 AM

Thank you, Mr. O'Muck!

Cheers

Pan

Title: Re: Elijah Wald talk on The Greenwich Village Folk Music scene of the 50's-60-s
Post by: westside ryan on April 11, 2013, 11:51:36 AM

Thanks! I enjoyed it!

Title: Re: Elijah Wald talk on The Greenwich Village Folk Music scene of the 50's-60-s
Post by: Stuart on April 11, 2013, 11:59:13 AM

Thanks for posting this, Phil. Very interesting, informative and enjoyable.

I followed up on a couple of things that Elijah mentioned. The book of Izzy Young's writings is available:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Conscience-Folk-Revival-Musicians/dp/0810883082 (http://www.amazon.com/The-Conscience-Folk-Revival-Musicians/dp/0810883082)

Perry Lederman's CD is available at Joan's website (there's also a sample track):

http://store.thesoftearth.com/pelemu.html (http://store.thesoftearth.com/pelemu.html)

And it looks like the Rev. Gary Davis film had its first screening in Boston. There's also a Facebook page:

http://www.acoustictraditions.org/ (http://www.acoustictraditions.org/)

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Harlem-Street-Singer/146549208696429 (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Harlem-Street-Singer/146549208696429)

Title: Re: Elijah Wald talk on The Greenwich Village Folk Music scene of the 50's-60-s
Post by: Old Man Ned on April 11, 2013, 02:34:14 PM

Thanks for posting.  Very interesting times.  Old romantic that I am,   I took myself down to Washington Square when visiting New York recently.

Title: Re: Elijah Wald talk on The Greenwich Village Folk Music scene of the 50's-60-s
Post by: GhostRider on April 12, 2013, 03:58:37 PM

Quote from: Old Man Ned on April 11, 2013, 02:34:14 PM

I took myself down to Washington Square when visiting New York recently.

So did I. Never realized it was so small.

I'll be glad when your dead   ;D ,
Alex

Title: Re: Elijah Wald talk on The Greenwich Village Folk Music scene of the 50's-60-s
Post by: Stuart on April 12, 2013, 04:19:17 PM

Quote from: GhostRider on April 12, 2013, 03:58:37 PM

I'll be glad when your dead   ;D

Louis Armstrong - I'll Be Glad When You're Dead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOgEm7pMdJw#)

http://archive.org/details/bb_ill_be_glad_when_youre_dead (http://archive.org/details/bb_ill_be_glad_when_youre_dead)


Talk about thread creep..., but it's Friday...

Title: Re: Elijah Wald talk on The Greenwich Village Folk Music scene of the 50's-60-s
Post by: Mr.OMuck on April 16, 2013, 04:42:30 PM

Who needs Acid? :P