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...coaxing the inner beauty out of moribund folk-song fodder like Five Hundred Miles or Fire and Rain, which he performs with spellbinding verve, Ponnudorai drew on the vast musical vocabulary amassed during his barroom years, and used it to execute the material with arresting freshness. His new solo act emerged in 2000; effortlessly spanning genres and periods, and quoting songs within songs, it is perfectly attuned to ears raised on unfettered sampling, but beneath the complexity is the sincerity of a man celebrating all that is musical and the simple fact of being alive. This is the combination that...
...would have to pull harder." He burrowed into the microfilm files of the New York Public Library to research the social issues he needed to know and wanted to write about. He hung around the offices of the folk magazine Sing Out! and in Village folk clubs like Cafe Wha? and Gerde's Folk City, hoovering the great American folk-song book and the performing styles of the day. He also got an instant education from his first New York girlfriend Suze Rotolo, a political activist who took Dylan to an evening of Brecht songs in the Village...
DIED. AGNES (SIS) CUNNINGHAM, 95, who co-founded, with her husband, the influential folk-song journal Broadside in 1962; in New Paltz, N.Y. During its 26-year run, the magazine published more than 1,000 songs, including Bob Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind and early works by Phil Ochs, Janis Ian, Tom Paxton and Buffy Sainte-Marie. An accomplished accordion and guitar player, she performed with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger in the 1940s...
...Last spring, Josh Tyrangiel and I had lunch with Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean and Eugene Levy, four creators of our favorite 60s-style folk-song improv documentary comedy ?A Mighty Wind.? I can say the interview, which TIME.com published in its extended form, is laugh-out-loud funny because I just reread it and laughed out loud quite often. Treat yourself and read it. No, let us treat you. The interview is on our website...
...Hampshire, his home state. He had a good view of Mount Monadnock and enough money to hide out for a year. As the fat years ran out in the early '70s, he retreated to the woods. He spent his time clearing saplings on old logging trails; good folk-song material here. He bought some beehives. He tapped his maple trees in the spring and discovered with a born-again countryman's pleasure that his illustrious ancestor, Dr. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, had written a long letter to Thomas Jefferson, promoting maple sugar...