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Thread #75122   Message #1929660
Posted By: GUEST,Frank Hamilton
07-Jan-07 - 07:00 PM
Thread Name: Little known '60s Folk Singers
Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
Peter and Isabelle Gardiner. They had great voices and played lovely songs.

Erik Darling. Much more of an influence on the 60's folk scene then was acknowledged.

Glen Yarborough.

Sam Eskin. (collector/performer)

Terry Gilkyson, Rich Dehr and Frank Miller (Easy Riders from LA)

No one has mentioned Sam Hinton or Bess Hawes although they predate the 60's.

Leon Bibb (now his son Erik)

Brock Peters. (the actor)

Theodore Bikel. (pretty well-known though...actor/singer)

Brother John Sellers (gospel/blues singer)

Anita Shear (international and flamenco)

Bob Gibson

Paul Clayton

Alan Mills from Canada
and the great fiddler Ti Jean Carignan.

Shoshanna Damari (Yemenite legend)

Oranim Zabar (Guela Gill)

Big Joe Williams

Arvella Gray

Tom Paley (influential in New York folk circles)

Micheal Saul (one of the best clawhammer players around)

Memphis Slim (blues piano legend)

Harry and Jeannie West (Appalachian/country) Harry in N.C. now.

Ray Boguslav (New York area)

Fleming Brown (premiere banjo influence/notabley Stephen Wade)

Billy Faier ( a creative an innovative 5-string banjo player)

John Stauber (worked with Belafonte, classical and folk guitar)

Dick Rosmini (prolific guitar picker)

Woody Wachtel (o-t banjo picker player, new york area)

Tony and Irene Saletan from Boston (Irene and Ellen...Kassoy Sisters)

Scott MacKenzie

Hoyt Axton

Frank Robinson (banjo player from San Francisco who did folk concerts with Rolf Cahn and Jo Mapes) prior to 60's

David Cohen (great guitarist from LA)

Dave Lindley (could play anything well)

Ed McCurdy (singer/songwriter performer)

The Gateway Singers (from San Francisco...Hungry i)

Pat Foster ( a little-known singer but influential to those who knew him)

Doc Hopkins (o-t player from Chicago)

Bob Atcher (like Gene Autry from Chicago)

Spanky MacFarlane (fame for a short period with Spanky and Our Gang)

How about Jean Ritchie's family...Edna Ritchie

Margaret MacArthur (lovely folklorist/singer from New England)

Before 60's Richard Dyer-Bennett who no one seems to know about today.

William Clausen (in the Dyer-Bennett tradition..excellent singer/guitarist)

Mary O'Hara (one of the first of the harp playing Celtic singers)

Bob Carey (with the Tarriers..not mentioned with Alan Arkin and Erik Darling)

Jerry Yester and the Modern Folk Quartet

Micheal Janusz who hardly anybody knows about but one of the great international singing performers..LA...Ash Grove

Pete Feldmann from Santa Barbara (bluegrass mandolin)

Greenbriar Boys (w. Ralph Rinzler)

Ethel Raim (Pennywhistlers)

Joyce James (Womenfolk)

Art Rosenbaum (0-T banjo picker from Athens, GA)

Mike Bloomfield (blues guitarist Chicago)

Oscar Brand (but he is more well-known)



There's more that I might think of later.

Frank