Folk Singers who Have Died

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: acegardener
Date: 02 Nov 10 - 11:58 AM

How could we forget Al Sealey

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Gaffer
Date: 02 Nov 10 - 08:53 AM

Mervyn Vincent
Cyril Tawney

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,jack Warshaw
Date: 02 Nov 10 - 07:04 AM

The wonderful Mississippi John Hurt, in 1966

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Derek Sarjeant
Date: 02 Nov 10 - 06:24 AM

A few more to add to the list :- ALEXIS KORNER, BRIDIE O'DONNELL, CLARENCE ASHLEY, CLIFF AUNGIER, CLIFF HALL.CYRIL DAVIES, FRANCIS McPEAKE, HAZEL(KING)SARJEANT, JO-ANN KELLY, JOHN PEARSE, JON ISHERWOOD, JOSH MacCRAE, JOY HYMAN,PAT NELSON, PETE SAYERS, ROY GUEST, REVEREND GARRY DAVIS, RUSSELL QUAYE and WALLY WHYTON

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 10:41 PM

Miskin Man,
Thanks for doing the alphabetized list. But I don't see Kate Wolf's name on it, or Stan Rogers's either.

I'd also add Jill Jackson Miller, who co-wrote "Let There Be Peace On Earth" with Sy Miller, whom she later married. Not sure if they're considered "folk," but I guess it depends on how broadly you define "folk."

I would also add Miriam Makeba to the list.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 06:29 AM

And several names on the list were bogus or jokes.

Old Man Mose and Poor Howard, for example (song lyrics).

And names like Hugh Jarse, or Mike Hunt...well, I think you can figure it out.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 05:57 AM

My wife died on operating theatre table for two minutes. Then they revived her. You could start another thread or two. Folksingers who died permanently. Folksingers who died temporarily. Folksingers who sing choruses that nobody joins in, and usually die on their arse.

This is a thread, whose title only tells part of the story.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 05:51 AM

As several have pointed out, there were known errors in my list above, but its main purpose was as a quick check before posting a new name. This it does. If anyone wants their turn just download my list into a spreadsheet and sort.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 05:29 AM

Above long list includes all mentioned, incl those that were erroneous as several posts since have pointed out. Let's add that Doc Watson is still going at age 87.

~Michael~

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 08:15 PM

A question mark against the Clancy brothers: sadly they are all gone now, Liam being the last to survive. Also Tommy and Sarah Makem.
And as you've got Tim Buckley, add in Jeff Buckley too.
Alex Campbell
Alistair Hulett
Danny Kyle
Hamish Imlach
Matt McGinn

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 11:22 AM

Again I will repeat: Ronnie Gilbert is alive.

You have a question mark next to Odetta's name; sad to say, she is no longer with us.

The proper spelling is Lee Hays, not Hayes.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 10:35 AM

I'll say it again: Michelle Phillips is not dead.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: I don't know
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 10:32 AM

Steeleye Span's Tim Hart.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: I don't know
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 10:25 AM

another one Issac Guillory

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 09:50 AM

Well that's one way to fill a Sunday morning!!
Here is a complete list in Alphabetical order of all names so far.

Adrienne Johnston
Alan Lomax
Alan Mills
Alex Atterson
Alex MacEwan
Art Stamper
Artie Traum
Belle Stewart
Bert Lloyd
Bill Monroe?
Bill Price
Billy Buntline
Bob Bertram
Bob Blue.
Bob Gibson
Bob Kotta
Bob Lynch
Bob Spray,
Bob't Byrd
Brenda Wootton
Brian Ingham
Brian Jones
Bud Dashiell
Burl Ives
Buz Collins
Cass Elliott
Charlie Bate
Ciaran Bourke
Cisco Huston
Clancy Brothers?
Colin Scot
Craig Johnson
Cynthia Gooding
Dave Carter
Dave Guard
Dave Van Ronk
David Blue
David Spence
Declan Affley
Derek McCormack
Doc Watson
Dominic Behan
Don Partridge
Don Stover
Don Walser
Eamonn Largey
Ed McCurdy
Erik Darling
Ewann MacColl
Focslehead Fred,
Frank Harte
Frank Winter
Fred Holstein
Fred Jordan
Gene Raskin
George Maynard
Gerry MacMahon
Gilbert (Cisco) Houston
Gordon McIntyre
Grant Rogers
Hamilton Camp
Hamish Henderson
Hardtack Bob
Harry Boardman
Harry Chapin
Harry Upton
Has Cyril Tawney
Haywire Mac,
Hedy West
Helen Schneyer
Hoyt Axton
Hugh Jarse
Irwin Silber
Jacko Kevans
Jackson C. Frank
Jeannie Robertson
Jerry Garcia
Jim Croce
Jim Reid
Jimmy McKinley
Jinx Davis
Joe Heaney
John and Michelle Phillips
John Denver
John Dwyer
John Hartford
John Herald
John Murphy
John Peel
John Stewart
John Wright
Johnny Cash
Johnny Collins
Johnny Duncan
Jon Rennard
Jonathan Eberhart
Josh White
Jumbo Brightwell
Kate McGarrigle
Kathleen Largey
Lee Hayes
Lesley Hale
Lester Flatt
Libba Cotton
Lionel McLelland
Lizzie Higgins
Long John Baldry
Lonnie Donegan
Lou Gottlieb
Louie Fuller
Malcolm Douglas
Mark Bolan
Martha Schlamme
Martin Winsor
Mary Ann Haynes
Mary Travers
MERLE Watson.
Mike Hunt
Mike Seeger
Millard Lampell
Nick Drake
Nick Reynolds
Odetta?
Old Man Mose
Orville Jenks
Paddie Bell
Paul Clayton?
Paul Robeson
Peter Bellamy
Phil Ochs
Phil Tanner
Poor Howard
Queen Caroline Hughes
Raphael Boguslav
Redd Sullivan
Richard Farina
Rick Keeling
Robin Hall
Rod Shearman
Roger Carmen
Roger Nicholson
Ronnie Gilbert
Rory MacEwan
Rowan Webb
Roy Williamson
Royston Wood
Sam Hinton
Sandy Paton
Shel Silverstein
Siwsann George
Sonny Terry
Stan Hugill
Stan James.
Steve Benbow
Steve Goodman?
Susan Reed
Sylvia Kelly
Ted Hawkins
Terry Gillikson
Terry Wadsworth
Tim Buckley
Tim Hardin
Tom Glazer
Tony Capstick
Tony Rose
Travis Edmundson
Utah Phillips
Vera Johnson
Vikki Williams
Walkin' Jim Stoltz
Walt Robertson
Walter Hiatt
Willie Scott

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 09:26 AM

From my Southampyon days

Rick Keeling
Roger Carmen

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,john f weldon
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 08:54 AM

???
Didn't see these two on a quick scan down.

Stan Rogers
Kate McGarrigle (check out the post-mortem collection "Oddities" on iTunes)

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Adam Smith
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 03:59 AM

Brian Jones
Mark Bolan
John Peel

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,JB
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 03:53 AM

Oops! So you did M. Apologies - my mistake!

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 02:21 AM

Yes, there have been refs to Peter Bellamy, some using some of his parody anagrammatic nicknames. I mentioned him among others in a post of 17 Oct, for example.

~Michael~

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,JB
Date: 30 Oct 10 - 06:51 PM

Can't believe no-one seems to have mentioned the great Peter Bellamy yet (unless i missed it) - also Harry Boardman & Buz Collins spring to mind.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Dave Topping
Date: 30 Oct 10 - 07:59 AM

John Hartford

The Banjo/Fiddler who gave us all those wonderfull river boat songs

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 29 Oct 10 - 10:55 PM

V distressed to discover from another, just refreshed, thread that an old acquaintance, Adrienne Johnston, has been dead for nearly 30 years, possibly as a consequence of domestic violence. I didn't know her well, only distantly as a critic gets to know a performer generally; but I am oddly sad to find that someone I knew at all has been dead for all this time without my knowing. It is an odd, upsetting feeling, as I am sure will be understood.

~Michael~

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,susanc
Date: 29 Oct 10 - 01:29 PM

Roy Williamson (Corries)

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: sciencegeek
Date: 29 Oct 10 - 12:35 PM

Mike & I dread the tought of arriving for another Mystic Sea Music Festival & find it "dedicated" to another friend. Stan Hugill in '92. Dave Parry a few years later.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Liane
Date: 29 Oct 10 - 10:11 AM

D'oh! Sorry, everyone, I've added to the repetitiveness of this thread by overlooking the mentions of Doc and Merle Watson, Paul Clayton, and Hoyt Axton in my first read-through.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Liane
Date: 29 Oct 10 - 09:57 AM

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Adam Smith
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 06:26 AM

Hugh Jarse
Doc Watson
Mike Hunt
Libba Cotton

- - - - - - - - - -
Actually, Doc Watson is still alive, though his son and fellow musician Merle Watson died tragically in a farming accident in the mid-1980s.

To this necrology I would add Paul Clayton (d. 1967), and Hoyt Axton (d. 1999).

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 19 Oct 10 - 07:57 PM

Paddie Bell
Bob Bertram
Lesley Hale
Jim Reid
Lionel McLelland

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie
Date: 19 Oct 10 - 07:40 PM

And our listings are getting repetitive too.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie
Date: 19 Oct 10 - 07:39 PM

I forgot to mention Bob Blue.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: I don't know
Date: 19 Oct 10 - 08:52 AM

Alex Atterson

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Walsy Jones
Date: 19 Oct 10 - 04:27 AM

Johnny Cash
John Denver
John Stewart
Harry Chapin
Bob Gibson
Hamilton Camp
Shel Silverstein
Mary Travers

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: I don't know
Date: 19 Oct 10 - 03:52 AM

Vikki Williams
Fred Jordan

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Marie
Date: 19 Oct 10 - 12:18 AM

Artie Traum
Joe Heaney

Does anybody know if Obray Ramsey is still living?

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: babypix
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 10:32 PM

Lest we not forget:

Fred Holstein
Utah Phillips
Odetta
Gene Raskin
Raphael Boguslav

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 08:00 PM

Getting sillier....only interesting parts are 'those stil alive, actually'.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: open mike
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 07:05 PM

Art Stamper - fiddler
Alan Lomax - performer and collector
Tom Glazer
Malcolm Douglas
Long John Baldry
Ewann MacColl
Irwin Silber
Bob't Byrd////senator and fiddler

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 05:53 PM

As in "Nodrog's woofing waltz"?

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Adam Smith
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 05:37 PM

It'd be good to have a list of dead folkies that was woefully inaccurate and full of people who have nothing to do with folk music, some of whom are still alive, I think.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 05:30 PM

It would be nice to have a searchable database of deceased Folkies, with a short biography, link to a photo, discography, etc. However I suppose that would mean a considerable outlay on someone's part.

Someday....

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: I don't know
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 05:30 PM

Brenda Wootton
John Wright
Sylvia Kelly

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: mrmoe
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 04:24 PM

thanx for bringing Doc Watson back to life - but don't forget:

Tim Hardin
Tim Buckley
David Blue

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 04:19 PM

You're right, Jay. I didn't mean to include Mama Michelle.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Adam Smith
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 04:10 PM

Ted Hawkins

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: acegardener
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 03:51 PM

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,David E. - PM
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 11:10 PM

I hope that Jackson C. Frank hasn't been forgotten.

David E.

He never will be by me, one of my earliest introductions to transatlantic folk. What a sad life he lived.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 03:29 PM

Michelle Phillips is still alive - the only one from the Mamas and the Papas who has that distinction.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 01:43 PM

Jerry Garcia

Cass Elliott (sp?)

John and Michelle Phillips

Jim Croce


(Yeah, I know they moved on to other genres and/or are kind of hard to classify, but they all were folkies at some point or some of their music fits the "folk" category.)

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: open mike
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 12:27 PM

Walter Hiatt is the fellow who died in the plane wreck//
we could have another list of jsut musicians who hav died on planes

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,O. Bit
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 12:26 PM

Poor Howard (is dead and gone)
Old Man Mose (he kicked the bucket)

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MG John
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 11:55 AM

Bob Spray, (from the Brigg Folk Club days in Leeds at the Adelphi Hotel.)