The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #86468   Message #1608583
Posted By: Celtaddict
18-Nov-05 - 08:46 PM
Thread Name: Unknown Favourites [performers]
Subject: RE: Unknown Favourites [performers]
Larry Kaplan. He has written some amazing songs, two of which have become part of the folk tradition, "Song for Gale" for Gale Huntington of Martha's Vineyard who collected and preserved a great number of seamen's songs, and "Old Zeb" about Zebulon Northrup Tilton, a fascinating individual who sailed the Alice B. Wentworth along the northeast coast the first third of the last century. Larry is a pediatrician and a gentle soul who almost never actually performs, but many of his songs are wonderful.