Folk Singers who Have Died

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 21 Jan 16 - 08:52 PM

Andy M Stewart on 27.12.15. There is an obit thread for him.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 19 Jan 16 - 03:53 PM

It may be worth noting that the "In Memoriam" thread exists to enable Mudcatters to research those folk artists who have died.

Peter

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,LynnH
Date: 19 Jan 16 - 03:35 AM

Louisa Jo Killen

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: kendall
Date: 18 Jan 16 - 08:48 PM

Theodor Bikel,
Granpa Jones,
David Akeman (Stringbean)

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 18 Jan 16 - 12:28 AM

Thank you. Hadn't heard of John Renbourn's death.

Margaret Barry died in 1989 [see wikipedia], John McCormack in 1945, Kirsty MacColl in 2000, so should all have been listed before. Thanks for catching up with these.

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Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,niccolo dappertutto
Date: 17 Jan 16 - 06:31 PM

Joe Hill- though may be in over 100 group by now but deserves a mention.
Margaret Barry
Delia Murphy
John McCormack
Victor Jara
Kirsty McColl
John Renbourne

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 15 Jan 16 - 07:36 AM

Checked back on this old thread to research something. Feel moved to add one of my favourite quotations, tho it comes from a book which overall I do not greatly care for -- Laurence Sterne's 'Tristram Shandy', 1759-67:

"We had a fat, foolish scullion ... Master Bobby is dead, said Obadiah; he is certainly dead! –– So am not I, said the foolish scullion."

Not so foolish that time, IMO.

And so am not I!

≈M≈

But who is to add since last entry nearly two years ago?

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: PHJim
Date: 24 Feb 14 - 10:22 PM

If I see a thread that doesn't interest me I find it easy to just not click on it, but go on to something that does catch my interest. No one will find every thread to their liking, but why add a post complaining about how boring you find the thread or try to add fake names that you think are funny.   If it doesn't appeal, move on to something else. Obviously, some folks are interested.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Norm
Date: 24 Feb 14 - 07:12 PM

So, has this entire list been compiled into one master list? I keep scrolling down and down..and down....a long way to go.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore
Date: 14 Jul 12 - 12:36 PM

I have done more than my share to perpetuate this dreary thread. I declare it to be out of control. Somebody get a stick and kill it.

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Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Jimi
Date: 14 Jul 12 - 09:09 AM

Whitney Houston
Elvis
Gene Pitney

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Megan L
Date: 14 Jul 12 - 08:32 AM

Given the average age of members of this site a who is still alive thread more advantageous

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore
Date: 14 Jul 12 - 08:00 AM

As Waddon Pete points out, a lot of the musicians listed or not listed here have been mentioned on his In Memoriam page.Sonny Terry, Cisco Houston, and Big Bill Broonzy have been mentioned at least twice on this thread.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: BanjoRay
Date: 14 Jul 12 - 04:27 AM

Astonishing that none of the following have been listed:

Sonny Terry, Roscoe Holcomb, Dock Boggs, Riley Puckett, Tommy Jarrell, Uncle Dave Macon, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Maggie Hammons, Cisco Houston, Big Bill Broonzy, Hobart Smith.

These have all been around in my lifetime, and were all Great.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Natalie J
Date: 13 Jul 12 - 09:29 PM

It has been fascinating reading this thread. Some thought it was a farce and didn't take it seriously. Those of us who were folkies before the folk music revival happened regard names of the deceased with tremendous interest. After all, they were folks we listened to and some of them in person, and we loved traditional folk music heart and soul. It was our very life. I said once that I would never read the newspaper obituaries (sounded so morbid), but I now do that quite regularly. If I see someone I know (knew), I read the entire obit. The rest of you may realize this when you are old and gray. What surprises me are those reported as gone who were a lot younger than me, I thought.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 13 Jul 12 - 04:47 PM

He's there on the 'In Memoriam' Thread......dip in and have a look.

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Al B
Date: 13 Jul 12 - 02:57 PM

No mention of Bert Jansch? What a loss that was!

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore
Date: 13 Jul 12 - 10:57 AM

Thanks, Pete

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 13 Jul 12 - 05:42 AM

Mudcat has its own "In Memoriam" thread which exists to celebrate those who have passed on since Mudcat was created.

It contains many of the above names as well as some who have not been mentioned here. It is always worth a visit as it has links to click to learn more.

Best wishes,

Peter

http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=142251

(My computer resolutely refuses to do blue clicks!) [....but Joe Offer can do them in his sleep.]

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore
Date: 12 Jul 12 - 09:46 PM

Tommy Thompson

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore
Date: 12 Jul 12 - 09:33 PM

Caryl P. Weiss

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Jul 12 - 04:22 PM

Wade Hemsworth
Sean Gagnier
Lindsay Cameron

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: it'smagic
Date: 12 Jul 12 - 03:02 PM

I don't see Barney McKenna anywhere on the list. But, enough, this is too depressing! It seems like more are dead than alive. Unless we want to pick one a day to remember and honor. The Happy Birthday thread is a good place.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore
Date: 12 Jul 12 - 08:24 AM

Dick Fegy, Ray Fisher, Almeida Riddle, Frank Warner.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore
Date: 12 Jul 12 - 07:24 AM

Frank Proffitt Jr.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore
Date: 11 Jul 12 - 08:56 PM

Derek Bell, Doug Quimby, Mike Waterson.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore
Date: 11 Jul 12 - 04:43 PM

Pink Anderson, Etta Baker, Buddy Moss, Dave "Honeyboy" Edwards, Pinetop Perkins.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore
Date: 11 Jul 12 - 04:39 PM

Sorry. Repeated Freyda Epstein.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore
Date: 11 Jul 12 - 04:04 PM

Lotus Dickey

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 11 Jul 12 - 03:12 PM

Plus the unknown and unnamed generations of folk singers and musician who kept the folk tradition alive for centuries before collectors took an interest.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore
Date: 11 Jul 12 - 03:00 PM

Freyda Epstein

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Blandiver
Date: 11 Jul 12 - 02:48 PM

Frank Williamson who was a mainstay of The Durham City Folk Club & Durham Folk Party. One of the finest voices ever, and a master at the songs of his native Durham & Northumbria.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore
Date: 11 Jul 12 - 02:40 PM

Tich Richardson, Logan English, Peter LaFarge, Johnny Cunningham.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore
Date: 11 Jul 12 - 11:54 AM

Daniel Womack, Piedmont blues and gospel singer/guitarist. (1905-1996) Can be heard on line at The Digital Library of Appalachia.

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Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore
Date: 10 Jul 12 - 09:39 PM

Mance Lipscomb, Johnny Shines, John Jackson, Brownie McGhee, Rev. Gary Davis.(listed but misspelled at least 6 times), Jim Taylor, Blind Willie McTell.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: ollaimh
Date: 10 Jul 12 - 08:42 PM

tex koenig

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: PHJim
Date: 10 Jul 12 - 08:25 PM

Willie P. Bennett,
Zeke Mazurek,
Gene MacLelland,
Daisy DeBolt,
Colleen Peterson,
Duck Donald,
Jackie Washington

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jul 12 - 07:29 PM

Jim Reid (Wild Geese)
John Watt (Kelty Clippie)

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,DTM
Date: 10 Jul 12 - 07:25 PM

Matt Armour
Mary Brookbank

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jul 12 - 06:30 PM

sylvia kelly was my mum, nice to find her name here, gone but not forgotton.
Issac Gilory should be on your list one of the all time greats.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Ken Brock
Date: 03 Jun 12 - 08:38 PM

ataik Ian Campbell is still living

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,mando-player-91
Date: 03 Jun 12 - 08:14 PM

Party because Joe Mccarthy was a Alcoholic and just plain evil but Bruce is right

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore
Date: 03 Jun 12 - 07:32 PM

John Herald died in 2005. John Stewart died in 2008. Pete Seeger celebrated his 93rd birthday on May 2012.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Stringsinger
Date: 03 Jun 12 - 07:10 PM

Please include Win Stracke and Archie Green in this list. They were both important.

I think that this thread is motivated by the fact that we lost one of the greatest of all,
Doc Watson, recently.


This mass obituary emphasizes that it's important to keep the tradition of folk music
alive in whatever way we can since many of the former carriers of the tradition have passed.

Is John Herald still alive? Or John Stewart with the KT?

Pete Seeger is ninety-two strong and as Springsteen has said, he has "outlived the bastards" such as McCarthy and his detractors. America's "tuning fork" is still resonant.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,mando-player-91
Date: 03 Jun 12 - 06:03 PM

Did anyone mention Tommy Makem?

-Shepard

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Ray
Date: 03 Jun 12 - 05:50 PM

Adge Cutler
Brian Brocklehurst
Ian Campbell

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Big Phil
Date: 03 Jun 12 - 05:06 PM

Recently lost - Barney McKenna. Resting on Fiddlers Green with the rest of the Lads.

Phil*

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore
Date: 03 Jun 12 - 11:59 AM

Looks like somebody is screwing around. In any case, I'll add Doc Watson, Bill Morrissey, Jack Hardy, Jeff Hardy.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 Jun 12 - 05:37 PM

spam????

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From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jun 12 - 05:27 PM

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