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...Richard Dyer-Bennet Great Barrington, Mass...
...Tenor Dyer-Bennet has long ranked as one of America's premier balladeers...
Schlamme's trained voice seems a bit too genteel to audiences accustomed to the guitar-bound school of folk singers-they tend to write her off as a lady Richard Dyer-Bennet. But in her Weill program, her emotional command over her audiences is unshakable. The nervous laughter that always greets such songs as Seerauber-Jenny and Barbara's Song dies in the throat under the weight of her sad eyes. "It's easy for me to feel like a rejected woman," she says, "and I think I can make it clear that...
...committed the unpardonable sin of dismissing Richard Dyer-Bennet in one sentence as an "arty eclectic." The likes of Joan Baez could not even hold his guitar...
...credit the flood of new records, where listeners learned from Andrés Segovia what range the guitar was capable of. There was Burl Ives and then Elvis Presley to prove that anyone could play. And along came the records of such beguiling folk singers as Woody Guthrie, Richard Dyer-Bennet and Pete Seeger...