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Dave Van Ronk is the other great one giving a local performance during the weekend, playing at Passim's until Sunday night. Van Ronk has been a dominant figure in folk for the past 15 years, and he's good at just about everything--old spirituals, jugband, political songs, love ballads and funning-around ditties. His voice is not the most esthetic thing around, it's sort of gravelly and rough, but his act is so smooth that you tend to forget and even to like the roughness of his utterances...
...long absence, and he'll be at Passim's in the Square starting Thursday. Van Ronk must be pushing 45 or so by now; he's the oldest and best folksinger around, a dominant if little-known figure for 15 years. He's good at everything--old spirituals, jugband stuff, political songs, love songs, even messing-around songs, and is a master of the acoustic guitar without being a showoff about it. Van Ronk is playing with June Millington, formerly of Fanny, and the show looks like easily the best in Boston this week...
Spider John Koerner, so named because he's long and thin, is at Passim's this week, from July 17 to 21. Spider John is a local boy and a longtime veteran of the blues-jugband-rag scene around here. He hasn't been in town for a while, and deserves a warm welcome back...
...Demon in Disguise--David Bromberg (Columbia). Bromberg made his reputation as a guitar-player. Hereafter, he will enhance it as a versatile entertainer. To pick my favorite cut on this album would be absolutely impossible. The title song and "Jugband Song" show off Bromberg's sense of humor both in performing and writing. Some Irish fiddle tunes and "Sugar in the Gourd" give him a chance to display his guitar and mandolin-playing talents. His "Tennessee Waltz" is as kind to the old standard as any singer's rendition could be, and his version of "Mr. Bojangles"--half-singing, half...
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