The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #132864 Message #3358909
Posted By: Stringsinger
03-Jun-12 - 07:10 PM
Thread Name: Folk Singers who Have Died
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
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.