From: meself
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 09:46 AM

"His earliest roots are in Rock so why not the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."

Actually, his 'earliest roots' are in Country & Western. Seriously.

   meself, you are pretty close. Leonard did have a C&W band called "The Buckskin Boys" while a student at McGill in the early 50's, but I recall him mentioning in some liner notes that he and a friend had sang there way through "The Little Red Songbook" while they worked in a lumber camp as teenagers in the late 40's. He said they had the somewhat naive idea that the Nazis were defeated by song. This was where he learned "The Partisan" that he then recorded some twenty years later. His EARLIEST roots probably include some Jewish music from his boyhood in Montreal's Jewish community.