What was Lee Hays really like...? (1914-1981)

Subject: RE: What was Lee Hays really like...?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Jan 07 - 08:58 AM

Refresh!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: What was Lee Hays really like...?
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 08:15 AM

fascinating

Subject: RE: What was Lee Hays really like...?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 11 Jan 07 - 09:12 PM

Fantastic thread - very interesting.

Subject: RE: What was Lee Hays really like...?
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 13 May 07 - 10:42 PM

And here is this thread for the edification of the person asking about Bascom Lamar Lunsford and Frank Hamilton and Jack Elliott & Billy Faier and Pete S. etc. -- and the political differences between the participants.

Still it's not the thread with Frank speaking about Lunsford's festival and what went down back then, but we're getting closer...

Art

Subject: RE: What was Lee Hays really like...?
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 17 May 11 - 11:02 AM

About time this thread was refreshed.

Incredible reading, if I do say so!

Jay

Subject: RE: What was Lee Hays really like...?
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 25 May 11 - 12:40 PM

Frank said the book left a lot out. And I'm forced to agree. Lee Hays was a fascinating figure in the history of the folk revival.

Pete Seeger does so well to interract with these modern folksingers. The battles he and Lee fought with each other, and the victories they enjoyed together - well its damn well intriguing -they were so far removed from today, and yet the struggles of artists to make their own unique contribution is timeless.

Subject: RE: What was Lee Hays really like...?
From: GUEST,banjopicker
Date: 28 Nov 11 - 02:08 PM

I read bits and parts of Lonesome traveler and will be getting the whole copy soon. The parts I did manage to read though told me that Lee had a very hard past from his child hood . He saw things that no kid or person should see when he was very young child.

Subject: RE: What was Lee Hays really like...?
From: GUEST,banjopicker
Date: 28 Nov 11 - 07:12 PM

I know this a thread about Lee Hays and I dont want to get off topic maybe I should have started a new thread and I dont even know if Frank Hamilton is still posting here in the forum anyways getting to my point of this post. We all got some great stories about Lee but what I want to know is what what Fred Hellerman like. I dont know the guy and from what I seen in a few videos is he seems like a great guy but also I noticed that he gave off the impression that he could be very difficult as well. Like for instance when Ronnie did the Holly Near song at the 1980 re-union also I heard a story about when they performed at the clear water festival I think it was and Lee said it was okay for the radio station to record it ( or something like that) and Fred was very against it and got very upset.

Subject: RE: What was Lee Hays really like...?
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 06 Sep 16 - 08:54 PM

Once again it's time to refresh this fascinating thread. Sad, too, because so many of the participants have left us.

But it's definitely a must-read. One of Mudcat's best ever.


Jay