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balladeer Canadian Folk Music (149* d) RE: Canadian Folk Music 23 Mar 09


I think it must be said that Canadian guitar players who came of age at the time of the sixties revival, and who hung around the environs of the Toronto of those days, were very influenced by what I have come to think of as "The New York School of Finger Picking". Dave Van Ronk, Bob Gibson, Len Chandler, and a host of other pickers who were paying their dues in Grennwich Village, were all influencing one another every day. Many of them came to play in Toronto and we learned from them. I believe the same thing was happening simultaneously in Montreal. When I first heard Paul Mills play, some twenty-five years post revival, I knew his style was rooted in that time and with those players. I could hear it.


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