Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Schmidt looks back on the Cambridge folk scene and its voyagers as tellers of need. They are the real breed of folk tradition, musicians who formed direct experience into...
...were so innocent," many of the book's characters say. They came to Cambridge for nothing more than a college education. "Education," von Schmidt points out, "is the key to the American dream." Then a job. Then a home. And a family. And then Woody Guthrie's refrain: "Then they all live in boxes, little boxes, all the same...
...Schmidt's innocent characters all came for the university. Baby tells us, indirectly, what they learned...
...hear kids today listen to music and get lost in it," von Schmidt complains, 'and escape into it." They'll say that folk's boring or its too soft or too slow, and I'll say, 'Well don't you think it's more sensitive?' But when people need to figure out what's going on in the world and who they are, when the energy crisis comes on so bad that middle class people are out in the backyard chopping up wood, I think you may see a resurgence in this type of music. It's sensitive...
THERE IS SOMETHING ETERNAL about folk music--especially the blues-- which makes you believe everything von Schmidt says. Musicians like Muddy Waters and Mississippi John Hurt--and even Pete Seeger--have been playing their music to adoring ears for generations. The best folk becomes so personal and compassionate that in a world of strangers, it's better than a friend...