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Folk Singers who Have Died

17 Oct 10 - 02:10 AM (#3008848)
Subject: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Guest - Lindy

I'm trying to come up with a list of well known or fairly well known folk singers that I can think of who have passed away. For the purpose of this thread I am only looking for artists who were primarily involved with folk or considered a folk singer although they may have played other music during their career.

1). Sandy Denny
2). Tim Hart
3). Jim Croce
4). Kate Wolf
5). Mary Travers (of Peter, Paul & Mary)
6). Stan Rogers
7). Mimi Farina-Baez (Joan Baez's younger sister)
8). John Denver
9). Dan Fogelberg
10).Odetta
11).Kate McGarrigle
12).Eva Cassidy
13).John Martyn
14).John Stewart
15).Harry Chapin

These are 15 names that came to mind right away but I know there are more folkies that have left us.

17 Oct 10 - 02:25 AM (#3008850)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: open mike

yes, many, many...just search here for OBIT and you will find some...
far too many, actually...but the heavenly choir has lots of members...
Utah Phillips, Mike Seeger, John Hartford, Jim Ringer,

17 Oct 10 - 02:32 AM (#3008853)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: beeliner

Townes vanZandt.

Dave Guard and Nick Reynolds.

17 Oct 10 - 02:39 AM (#3008857)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: catspaw49

Sandy Paton
Rick Fielding

17 Oct 10 - 02:51 AM (#3008859)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: open mike

Barry Finn

17 Oct 10 - 02:57 AM (#3008861)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Adam Smith

Barry White
Freddie Mercury
Elizabeth Cronin
Woody Guthrie

17 Oct 10 - 03:04 AM (#3008867)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Little Robyn

You missed Mimi Baez's husband - Richard Farina.
This year, people I have counted as friends:
Alistair Hulett - Scotland
Theresa Tooley - England
Joan Prior - Wellington NZ
Jim Delahunty - Wellington NZ

All folkies, all sadly missed.
Robyn in NZ

17 Oct 10 - 03:13 AM (#3008872)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Erich

Yes, and Derroll Adams
Alex Campbell
Luke Kelly
Ronnie Drew
Isaac Guillory
Gerry Lockran
Roy Williamson
Lal Waterson
Clancy Brothers
Tommy Makem

and and and ...

What a great session they might have up there

17 Oct 10 - 03:43 AM (#3008873)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Dave Hanson

Lest we forget, Elmer P Bleaty.

Dave H

17 Oct 10 - 04:30 AM (#3008879)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Shimrod

So, Freddie Mercury was a folk singer, was he? Yes, of course he was - just like Joan Sutherland who died the other day ...

17 Oct 10 - 04:54 AM (#3008891)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Fran

Fred Wedlock
Joe Scurfield

17 Oct 10 - 04:57 AM (#3008893)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Dennis the Elder

Keith Marsden.
Next year will be the 20th Aniversary of his death and still sadly missed

17 Oct 10 - 04:57 AM (#3008894)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion

Ewan MacColl, Bert Lloyd, Burl Ives...

17 Oct 10 - 05:14 AM (#3008903)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Silas

Vic Baker, Tony Rose, Johnny Collins, Tony Capstick, Fred Jordan, Ewan McColl.

17 Oct 10 - 05:14 AM (#3008904)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Silas

Lal Waterson

17 Oct 10 - 05:17 AM (#3008905)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: kendall

Leadbelly
John Jacob Niles
Carl Sandburg
Margaret MacArthur

17 Oct 10 - 05:18 AM (#3008906)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: scouse

Not forgetting....
Iain MacIntosh
the great Hamish Imlach.

As Aye,

Phil

17 Oct 10 - 05:18 AM (#3008907)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: kendall

Malvina Reynolds

17 Oct 10 - 05:20 AM (#3008909)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Silas

Hamsh Henderson

17 Oct 10 - 05:20 AM (#3008910)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Adam Smith

Pete Seegar
Johnny Cash
Norman Wisdom
Seamus Ennis
Shep
Robert Maxwell
Marcus Garvey
John Strachan

17 Oct 10 - 05:26 AM (#3008915)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Amos

How far back do we want to seek, here?


A

17 Oct 10 - 05:33 AM (#3008917)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Silas

Peter Sellars, Kenneth Williams

17 Oct 10 - 05:41 AM (#3008925)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion

What is Mr Smith doing killing off Pete Seeger [note spelling], please?

Amos's question is of course a most pertinent one. Dealing only with people I have met, let's take as an example Harry Cox. If he wasn't dead, he would be 125 years old. Peter Bellamy, on the other hand, would only be 66, Sandy Denny 63, &c. But Alex Campbell 85. So where did OP envisage the parameters being set?

Has Isla Cameron been mentioned? Or Dominic Behan?

~Michael~

17 Oct 10 - 05:47 AM (#3008932)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: TheSnail

One or two of these already mentioned.

John England
Walter Pardon
Harry Cox
Sam Larner
Paddy Tunney
James 'Brasser' Copper
Jim Copper
Bob Copper
Run Copper
Cyril Poacher
Phoebe Smith
Bob Hart
Oscar Woods
Harry Cox
Bob Roberts
George Spicer
Ron Spicer
Scan Tester
George Gelton
Cyril Phillips
Rabbidy Baxter
Harry Upton
George Maynard
Mary Ann Haynes
Louie Fuller
Queen Caroline Hughes
Jumbo Brightwell
Phil Tanner
Belle Stewart
Lizzie Higgins
Jeannie Robertson

17 Oct 10 - 05:59 AM (#3008949)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Adam Smith

Pete Seeger (note spelling) is still alive, but my mate Pete Seegar died a few years ago. We had a big funeral, at which Mary Mcalpine sang 'My Love Is Like A Red Red Nose'.

It was profoundly moving.

17 Oct 10 - 06:01 AM (#3008951)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Jean(eanjay)

Royston Wood
Jon Rennard

17 Oct 10 - 06:26 AM (#3008959)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Adam Smith

Hugh Jarse
Doc Watson
Mike Hunt
Libba Cotton

17 Oct 10 - 06:34 AM (#3008968)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion

No, I haven't. Sorry. Don't know where above blankety-blank space came from...

17 Oct 10 - 06:37 AM (#3008972)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST

Ciaran Bourke {The Dubliners}
Bob Lynch
Adrienne Johnston
Roy Williamson {The Corries}
Kathleen Largey {The Flying Cloumn}
Eamonn Largey {The Flying Cloumn}
Derek McCormack {Barleycorn}

17 Oct 10 - 06:43 AM (#3008977)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Warwick Slade

Steve Benbow
Colin Scot
Jimmy McKinley

17 Oct 10 - 06:49 AM (#3008981)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion

Robin Hall

17 Oct 10 - 07:05 AM (#3008993)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Susanne (skw)

Some more sad losses:
Derek Moffat (of the McCalmans, just now calling it a day)
Tony Cuffe (Jock Tamson's Bairns)
Davy Steele (quite a few Scottish bands)
Liz Cruickshank, Edinburgh
Anselm Noffke (of Germany's Liederjan, who are celebrating 35 years on 24 October, with one founder member still with them)

17 Oct 10 - 07:05 AM (#3008994)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion

Has Cyril Tawney been listed yet?

~M~

17 Oct 10 - 07:16 AM (#3008998)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: SPB-Cooperator

Stan Hugill

17 Oct 10 - 07:20 AM (#3009001)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Andy Jackson

There are so many friends we have all lost over the years, some "famous" some just part of our lives.

Siwsann George

Vicki Williams

Brian Ingham

We are all richer for having known them.

Andy

17 Oct 10 - 07:32 AM (#3009008)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Roger F.

17 Oct 10 - 07:33 AM (#3009010)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Roger F.

17 Oct 10 - 07:35 AM (#3009011)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Roger F.

Roger Nicholson (dulcimer player & guitarist)

apologise for the previous blanks, but each time I went to type something in the thread closed!

17 Oct 10 - 07:36 AM (#3009013)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Tug the Cox

Guest Adam Smith listed 'Shep'. To whom do you refer?

17 Oct 10 - 07:44 AM (#3009019)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: John MacKenzie

David


{Well it is a stupid thread!}

17 Oct 10 - 07:50 AM (#3009026)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Adam Smith

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:36 AM

Guest Adam Smith listed 'Shep'. To whom do you refer?
------------------------------------------------------




I refer to Shep, of course.

17 Oct 10 - 07:51 AM (#3009028)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion

Will Kemp, Shax's clown who did the 9·days·wonder dance from London to Norwich in 1600. Mrs Knipp, the actress whom Pepys recorded in his Diary having heard singing Barbara Allen on 2 Jan 1666 ......

~Michael~

17 Oct 10 - 08:43 AM (#3009055)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: alanabit

I will soon think of many more, but Johnny Collins and Don Partridge come to mind immediately. To me, both were the heart and soul of folk music in very different ways. I am sure Tony Rose must have been mentioned by someone, although I missed it. Bill Price also comes to mind.

17 Oct 10 - 11:28 AM (#3009141)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Larry The Radio Guy

Mickey Newbury
Tom Paley

17 Oct 10 - 11:39 AM (#3009150)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Suegorgeous

umm, what is the point of this thread? (genuinely want to know!)

17 Oct 10 - 11:41 AM (#3009152)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Suegorgeous

...which of course raises another question... do threads need a point? :)

17 Oct 10 - 11:44 AM (#3009154)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Erich

OK, so Tony Rose and Bill Price are there already
more:
Tony Capstick
Martin Winsor
Redd Sullivan
Dominic Behan
Phil Ochs


I guess my vinyl collection is a great cemetery...

17 Oct 10 - 11:47 AM (#3009158)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Elwyn Maxon

Cisco Huston
Grant Rogers
Millard Lampell
Bob Gibson
Hamilton Camp

17 Oct 10 - 11:49 AM (#3009160)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Dave MacKenzie

"do threads need a point?"

Only if you don't have a needle.

17 Oct 10 - 11:50 AM (#3009162)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: The Sandman

tom paley is still alive.

17 Oct 10 - 11:52 AM (#3009165)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Phil Cooper

Dave Carter

17 Oct 10 - 12:03 PM (#3009171)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Doc John

Hedy West

17 Oct 10 - 12:07 PM (#3009176)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Doc John

Doc Watson is still alive (unless you mean another Doc Watson)
Lonnie Donegan
Johnny Duncan
All classic blues singers

17 Oct 10 - 12:08 PM (#3009177)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,allan.s

Tom Paley is alive

17 Oct 10 - 12:13 PM (#3009179)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: BrooklynJay

Erik Darling
Lee Hays
Josh White
Lou Gottlieb

17 Oct 10 - 12:17 PM (#3009183)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: wysiwyg

MERLE Watson.

Steve Goodman?

~S~

17 Oct 10 - 12:35 PM (#3009202)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: BrooklynJay

Cynthia Gooding
Susan Reed

17 Oct 10 - 12:50 PM (#3009213)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Doc John

Haywire Mac, Orville Jenks and all of those who recorded for the Library of Congress, probably

17 Oct 10 - 01:00 PM (#3009219)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST

Gilbert (Cisco) Houston
David Blue
Nick Drake
Richard Farina

17 Oct 10 - 01:54 PM (#3009250)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Deckman

Burl Ives
David Spence
Terry Wadsworth
Walt Robertson
John Dwyer

17 Oct 10 - 02:00 PM (#3009256)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Doc John

Rory and Alex MacEwan

17 Oct 10 - 02:00 PM (#3009257)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Amos

Old Blind____ (fill in the blank with your choice), the blues player.

Hardtack Bob, Focslehead Fred, Billy Buntline and ten thousand other chanters of sea chanties.

Plowmen without number, tinkers and soldiers and spirited maids from a hundred races. All greatly missed, too.



A

17 Oct 10 - 02:02 PM (#3009260)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Nancy King

Helen Schneyer
Jonathan Eberhart
Craig Johnson
Mike Seeger

17 Oct 10 - 02:24 PM (#3009281)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Don Firth

One of the Biggies in the Pacific Northwest, who died almost exactly two years ago. Stan James.

CLICKY.

Scroll down. Great pictures of Stan in action, most taken by Sally Ashford. One photo is a street scene (a bit fuzzy), including Walt Robertson and Merritt Herring, both of whom are no longer with us.

Further down is a photo taken of the "grand finale" of the Seattle Coffeehouse Reunion ("Geezer's Concert") at the 2003 Northwest Folklife Festival.

Not everyone who sang in the coffeehouses during the late 50s and through the 60s were there. Some live in other parts of the country, and some have passed on.

There are some great song fests going on Somewhere. . . .

Don Firth

17 Oct 10 - 02:35 PM (#3009290)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Suegorgeous

But what if the pointlessness needles?

17 Oct 10 - 02:37 PM (#3009291)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Little Robyn

Charlie Bate from Padstow
Travis Edmundson
Willie Scott
Frank Winter

17 Oct 10 - 02:58 PM (#3009301)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: John on the Sunset Coast

In advance...sorry if I duplicate.

Bud Dashiell
Nick Reynolds
Dave Guard
Alan Mills
Sam Hinton
Lee Hayes
Erik Darling
Martha Schlamme
Paul Robeson
Hoyt Axton
Ed McCurdy

17 Oct 10 - 03:00 PM (#3009306)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh

Frank Harte
Gerry MacMahon

17 Oct 10 - 04:46 PM (#3009370)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: kendall

Ronnie Gilbert of the Weavers
Terry Gillikson
John Murphy of Hal n Tow

17 Oct 10 - 04:48 PM (#3009373)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,jerryclark

Did I miss something, or -- incredibly -- has Dave Van Ronk, one of the revival's towering figures, not been mentioned? What about Paul Clayton? The Clancy Brothers? Bill Monroe? Lester Flatt? These aren't exactly obscure people.

Meantime, living performers get listed, along with some musicians who can't be called folk by any definition. Weird.

17 Oct 10 - 05:04 PM (#3009378)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: SPB-Cooperator

Rod Shearman

17 Oct 10 - 05:07 PM (#3009379)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: dick greenhaus

On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness

The tusks which clashed in mighty brawls
Of mastodons, are billiard balls.

The sword of Charlemagne the Just
Is Ferric Oxide, known as rust.

The grizzly bear, whose potent hug,
Was feared by all, is now a rug.

Great Caesar's bust is on the shelf,
And I don't feel so well myself.
-- Arthur Guiterman

17 Oct 10 - 05:11 PM (#3009381)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: BrooklynJay

Ronnie Gilbert of the Weavers is alive.

17 Oct 10 - 05:55 PM (#3009423)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: dick greenhaus

Mike Seeger
Hamish Henderson
John Herald
Bert Lloyd
Josh White
Sonny Terry

17 Oct 10 - 07:33 PM (#3009480)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Larry The Radio Guy

Allan s. Thanks for correcting me re. Tom Paley. I had heard many years ago that he had died, but never followed it up--it's great to know he's still alive and performing.

One very obscure deceased folk singer who was an incredible guitarist, songwriter, singer, and entertainer was a fellow named John Antle, who used to play around the Edmonton Folk Club in the early 1970's, and then around Toronto. He also apparently played in folk clubs in San Francisco. Is anybody familiar with him?

17 Oct 10 - 08:28 PM (#3009501)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Slag

Excellent Dick Greenhaus!

17 Oct 10 - 08:40 PM (#3009509)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: kendall

I thought Ronnie Gilbert had died.

17 Oct 10 - 08:51 PM (#3009520)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Jeri

Ronnie Gilbert's website

17 Oct 10 - 11:05 PM (#3009561)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

Harry Chapin

Sandy Paton


And (known in the Pacific Northwest, at least):
Jinx Davis
Bob Kotta (of "Howlin' Gael")

17 Oct 10 - 11:10 PM (#3009562)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,David E.

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

David E.

17 Oct 10 - 11:43 PM (#3009572)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Deckman

I'm pleased to see that I am NOT on this list ... yet! But if I continue to start threads about the evils of singing in churches ... it's just a matter of time! bob

18 Oct 10 - 01:17 AM (#3009597)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Martha Burns

Doc Watson is also still alive. Merle, Doc's son, died in 1985. But Doc is still with us.

18 Oct 10 - 01:42 AM (#3009601)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

June Carter Cash (and pretty much all the other Carter Family - many of whom would be REALLY old if they were still alive).

18 Oct 10 - 01:42 AM (#3009602)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

If we need to add you to this list, Bob, we'll let you know.

18 Oct 10 - 03:20 AM (#3009615)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: open mike

Don Walser--texas yodeller
Walkin' Jim Stoltz

there was a musician who went down on a Jet Blue plane in Florida
everglades....his name was close to(sounded similar to), but not John Hiatt...he had just played at strawberry music fest...can't remember his name.

did anyone say Odetta?

18 Oct 10 - 03:25 AM (#3009621)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: SqueezeMe

One of my favourites, Vera Johnson (Canada)

And from Australia, amongst others,

Dave Alexander
Declan Affley
Gordon McIntyre
Jacko Kevans
Rowan Webb

RIP. All very much missed....

18 Oct 10 - 04:38 AM (#3009633)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: greg stephens

I doibt if there all that many inhabitants in the world who dont sing folksongs at one time or another. So to be on the safe I would like to add to the list
Everyone who is no longer alive.

18 Oct 10 - 06:58 AM (#3009692)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: kendall

If Bluegrass is folk, Don Stover

18 Oct 10 - 11:55 AM (#3009876)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MG John

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

18 Oct 10 - 12:26 PM (#3009892)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,O. Bit

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

18 Oct 10 - 12:27 PM (#3009893)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: open mike

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

18 Oct 10 - 01:43 PM (#3009950)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

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.)

18 Oct 10 - 03:29 PM (#3010034)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: BrooklynJay

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

18 Oct 10 - 03:51 PM (#3010040)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: acegardener

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.

18 Oct 10 - 04:10 PM (#3010050)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Adam Smith

Ted Hawkins

18 Oct 10 - 04:19 PM (#3010052)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

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

18 Oct 10 - 04:24 PM (#3010058)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: mrmoe

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

Tim Hardin
Tim Buckley
David Blue

18 Oct 10 - 05:30 PM (#3010100)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: I don't know

Brenda Wootton
John Wright
Sylvia Kelly

18 Oct 10 - 05:30 PM (#3010101)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler

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....

18 Oct 10 - 05:37 PM (#3010111)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Adam Smith

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.

18 Oct 10 - 05:53 PM (#3010127)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler

As in "Nodrog's woofing waltz"?

18 Oct 10 - 07:05 PM (#3010173)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: open mike

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

18 Oct 10 - 08:00 PM (#3010215)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Tug the Cox

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

18 Oct 10 - 10:32 PM (#3010293)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: babypix

Lest we not forget:

Fred Holstein
Utah Phillips
Odetta
Gene Raskin
Raphael Boguslav

19 Oct 10 - 12:18 AM (#3010322)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Marie

Artie Traum
Joe Heaney

Does anybody know if Obray Ramsey is still living?

19 Oct 10 - 03:52 AM (#3010371)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: I don't know

Vikki Williams
Fred Jordan

19 Oct 10 - 04:27 AM (#3010390)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Walsy Jones

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

19 Oct 10 - 08:52 AM (#3010540)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: I don't know

Alex Atterson

19 Oct 10 - 07:39 PM (#3011098)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

I forgot to mention Bob Blue.

19 Oct 10 - 07:40 PM (#3011103)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

And our listings are getting repetitive too.

19 Oct 10 - 07:57 PM (#3011123)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Tattie Bogle

Paddie Bell
Bob Bertram
Lesley Hale
Jim Reid
Lionel McLelland

29 Oct 10 - 09:57 AM (#3018481)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Liane

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).

29 Oct 10 - 10:11 AM (#3018493)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Liane

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.

29 Oct 10 - 12:35 PM (#3018605)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: sciencegeek

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.

29 Oct 10 - 01:29 PM (#3018660)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,susanc

Roy Williamson (Corries)

29 Oct 10 - 10:55 PM (#3019083)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion

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~

30 Oct 10 - 07:59 AM (#3019199)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Dave Topping

John Hartford

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

30 Oct 10 - 06:51 PM (#3019553)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,JB

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.

31 Oct 10 - 02:21 AM (#3019782)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion

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~

31 Oct 10 - 03:53 AM (#3019805)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,JB

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

31 Oct 10 - 03:59 AM (#3019808)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Adam Smith

Brian Jones
Mark Bolan
John Peel

31 Oct 10 - 08:54 AM (#3019916)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,john f weldon

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

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

31 Oct 10 - 09:26 AM (#3019930)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Andy Jackson

From my Southampyon days

Rick Keeling
Roger Carmen

31 Oct 10 - 09:50 AM (#3019940)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Andy Jackson

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

31 Oct 10 - 10:25 AM (#3019962)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: I don't know

another one Issac Guillory

31 Oct 10 - 10:32 AM (#3019968)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: I don't know

Steeleye Span's Tim Hart.

31 Oct 10 - 10:35 AM (#3019975)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: BrooklynJay

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

31 Oct 10 - 11:22 AM (#3020001)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: BrooklynJay

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.

31 Oct 10 - 08:15 PM (#3020383)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Tattie Bogle

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

01 Nov 10 - 05:29 AM (#3020571)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion

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~

01 Nov 10 - 05:51 AM (#3020582)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Andy Jackson

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.

01 Nov 10 - 05:57 AM (#3020584)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle

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.

01 Nov 10 - 06:29 AM (#3020592)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: BrooklynJay

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.

01 Nov 10 - 10:41 PM (#3021296)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

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.

02 Nov 10 - 06:24 AM (#3021437)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Derek Sarjeant

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

02 Nov 10 - 07:04 AM (#3021462)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,jack Warshaw

The wonderful Mississippi John Hurt, in 1966

02 Nov 10 - 08:53 AM (#3021519)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Gaffer

Mervyn Vincent
Cyril Tawney

02 Nov 10 - 11:58 AM (#3021659)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: acegardener

How could we forget Al Sealey

02 Nov 10 - 01:19 PM (#3021750)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion

Not sure Frank Purslow has been mentioned ~~ not in Miskin Man's list ~ & I seem to remember hearing he had died. If not, apologies. I am reminded of him by having just mentioned a song he used to sing in the Fuck My Old Boots thread.

~Michael~

02 Nov 10 - 07:06 PM (#3022074)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST

Just a few of the ones I wish were still here

Cyril Tawney
Stan Hugill
Jon Eberhart
Craig Johnson
Sandy Paton
Cliff Aungier
Warren Zevon

03 Nov 10 - 01:09 AM (#3022242)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

Here's (I think) a complete list of the actual dead folk singers (folk musicians) that have been mentioned so far. (Gotta do something while I watch the election returns come in, so I can kind of tune out the talking heads for the most part.)
This is in alphabetical order by last name. Trying not to list anyone who would be over 100 years old had they not died.

Declan Affley
Clarence Ashley
Alex Atterson
Cliff Aungier
Hoyt Axton



Long John Baldry
Charlie Bate
Dominic Behan
Paddie Bell
Peter Bellamy
Steve Benbow
Bob Bertram
Bob Blue.
David Blue
Harry Boardman
Hardtack Bob
Raphael Boguslav
Mark Bolan
Ciaran Bourke
Jumbo Brightwell
Tim Buckley
Jeff Buckley
Billy Buntline
Robert Byrd


Hamilton Camp
Alex Campbell
Tony Capstick
Roger Carmen
Dave Carter
June Carter Cash
Johnny Cash
Harry Chapin
George Chudakoff
Bobby Clance
Liam Clancy
Paddy Clancy
Tom Clancy
Paul Clayton?
Vassar Clements (fiddler)
Buzz Collins
Johnny Collins
Jim Croce


Cyril Davies
Jinx Davis
John Denver
Erik Darling
Bud Dashiell
Denny Doherty
Lonnie Donegan
Malcolm Douglas
Nick Drake
Johnny Duncan
John Dwyer



Jonathan Eberhart
Travis Edmundson
Cass Elliott


Richard Farina
Jackson C. Frank
Focslehead Fred
Louie Fuller


Jerry Garcia
Bob Gibson
Terry Gillikson
Tom Glazer
Cynthia Gooding
Steve Goodman
Lou Gottlieb
Dave Guard
Issac (sp?) Guillory



Cliff Hall
Robin Hall
Tim Hardin
Tim Hart
Frank Harte
John Hartford
Ted Hawkins
Mary Ann Haynes
Lee Hays
Hamish Henderson
Joe Heaney
John Herald
Merritt Herring
Walter Hiatt
Lizzie Higgins
Sam Hinton
Fred Holstein
Gilbert (Cisco) Houston
Mississippi John Hurt



Queen Caroline Hughes
Stan Hugill
Alistair Hulett


Hamish Imlach
Brian Ingham
Burl Ives



Jill Jackson (Miller)
Stan James
Orville Jenks
Craig Johnson
Brian Jones
Fred Jordan
Vera Johnson
Adrienne Johnston


John Kahn
Rick Keeling
Sylvia Kelly
Jacko Kevans
Alexis Korner
Bob Kotta
Danny Kyle



Millard Lampell
Eamonn Largey
Kathleen Largey
Bob Lynch
Alan Lomax
Bert Lloyd



George Maynard
Sarah Makem
Tommy Makem
Haywire Mac
Ewan MacColl
Alex MacEwan
Rory MacEwan
Gerry MacMahon
Miriam Makeba
Derek McCormack
Kate McGarrigle
Matt McGinn
Gordon McIntyre
Jimmy McKinley
Ed McCurdy
Lionel McLelland
Alan Mills
Bill Monroe
Old Man Mose
John Murphy


Roger Nicholson


Phil Ochs
Bridie O'Donnell
Odetta


Don Partridge
Sandy Paton
John Phillips
Utah Phillips
Bill Price
Frank Purslow


Gene Raskin
Nick Reynolds
Jon Rennard
Susan Reed
Jim Reid
Jeannie Robertson
Walt Robertson
Paul Robeson
Grant Rogers
Stan Rogers
Tony Rose


Martha Schlamme
Helen Schneyer
Colin Scot
Willie Scott
Al Sealey
Mike Seeger
Rod Shearman
Irwin Silber
Shel Silverstein
David Spence
Bob Spray
Art Stamper
Belle Stewart
John Stewart
Walkin' Jim Stoltz
Don Stover
Redd Sullivan


Phil Tanner
Cyril Tawney
Sonny Terry
Artie Traum
Mary Travers

Harry Upton


Dave Van Ronk
Mervyn Vincent


Terry Wadsworth
Don Walser
MERLE Watson
Rowan Webb
Hedy West
Josh White
Roy Williamson
Frank Winter
Royston Wood
Martin Winsor
Phil Williams
Vikki Williams
Kate Wolf
Jonathan Wootton
John Wright

Warren Zevon

03 Nov 10 - 02:14 AM (#3022265)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: BrooklynJay

I was always under the impression that Old Man Mose was a name from a song title. (I remember that Louis Armstrong, Betty Hutton, and Manhattan Transfer - among others - recorded it.)

And somehow, both Big Lists managed to omit Woody Guthrie! (Though he was mentioned in an earlier post in this thread.)

03 Nov 10 - 02:31 AM (#3022271)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

I was going to include Woody and even Hank Williams (yes, he's thought of as "country," but an awful lot of folk singers do his songs all the time). Woody would've been almost 99 if he were alive, though, but Hank would be just 87, so maybe I should have included him.

03 Nov 10 - 03:31 AM (#3022281)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

Forgot to add these (because they were in all caps, so they had to be re-typed).

Reverend Garry Davis
Roy Guest
Joy Hyman
John Isherwood
Jo-Ann Kelly
Josh MacCrae
Francie McPeake
Pat Nelson
Russell Quaye
John Pearse
Hazel (King) Sarjeant
Pete Sayers
Wally Whyton

03 Nov 10 - 04:29 AM (#3022306)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion

... and you've still missed Brenda Wootton, G. & surely George Maynard would have been way over 100?

~M~

03 Nov 10 - 04:53 AM (#3022324)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: I don't know

Should read Isaac guillory. Miss spelt earlier.

03 Nov 10 - 12:31 PM (#3022617)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Derek Sarjeant

Yet a few more :-
John Dunkerley
Tommy Eytle
Fred Gerlach
Cy Grant
Davy Graham
Jake Thackray

03 Nov 10 - 02:05 PM (#3022670)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion

Ralph Rinzler, who only lived to 60, does not figure on either of the comprehensive lists or their addenda. So let's hear it for him also.

~Michael~

03 Nov 10 - 03:26 PM (#3022749)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Booklynrose

I started reading this thread because I'm still reeling from 2009 when we lost a LOT of folk singers. Already mentioned were Sandy Paton, Mike Seeger & Mary Travers who all died last year.
I did not see the names of Bess Lomax Hawes, Richie Schulberg, Mary LaMarca, Susan Contento (in NYC)who died last year.
I'm also going to drift from the thread's focus to share my pleasure that three singers who seemed desperately ill in December 2009 are still with us, Jean Ritchie, Jerry Epstein, & Ray Fisher.

05 Nov 10 - 11:55 AM (#3024319)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Roger C.

Add Graham Cooper who we lost this year.


"Big" Pete Roger, Brian Osbourne and Stuart Robinson, all of the Taverners folk group (Lancashire.)

05 Nov 10 - 11:58 AM (#3024324)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Roger C.

Diz Dizley this year, a great folk & jazz influence to many.



Has Johnny Collins been listed?

06 Nov 10 - 12:13 AM (#3024884)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Mike B.

Fred Neil
Gerry Armstrong
Joe Glazer
Freyda Epstein (victim of senseless car crash in Virginia)
Rachel Bissex

The weekly Traditions program on WAMU in Washington, DC (hosted by Mary Cliff) does an excellent job paying tribute to folk music figures when they pass on - that's where I've often first heard the sad news.

06 Nov 10 - 02:25 PM (#3025274)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Elmore

Bob and Evelyne Beers,Margaret Macarthur,Gamble Rogers, Bogan Martin and Armstrong

06 Nov 10 - 03:13 PM (#3025329)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Elmore

Oops. Forgot Barbara Carns, John Allan Cameron. Vaughn Ward, Maureen Delgrosso.

07 Nov 10 - 12:51 PM (#3025956)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Mrs Scarecrow

and only last week Ted Comben

07 Nov 10 - 10:51 PM (#3026349)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

Armstrong??   Is there more to that name?

08 Nov 10 - 01:16 AM (#3026410)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST

A few more from Oz:

Brian Crawford
June Nichols
Wendy Lowenstein
Geri Lobl
Denis Kevans
John Meredith
Alan Scott
Richard Mills

RIP

08 Nov 10 - 01:20 AM (#3026412)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,SqueezeMe

A few more from Oz:

Brian Crawford
June Nichols
Wendy Lowenstein
Geri Lobl
Denis Kevans
John Meredith
Alan Scott
Richard Mills

RIP

08 Nov 10 - 05:17 AM (#3026476)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

Updated alphabetized list, with a few additions that haven't been mentioned yet in separate posts:

Declan Affley
Gerry Armstrong
Clarence Ashley
Alex Atterson
Cliff Aungier
Hoyt Axton

Long John Baldry
Charlie Bate
Bob Beers
Evelyne Beers
Dominic Behan
Paddie Bell
Peter Bellamy
Steve Benbow
Bob Bertram
Rachel Bissex
Bob Blue
David Blue
Harry Boardman
Hardtack Bob
Raphael Boguslav
Mark Bolan
Ciaran Bourke
Jumbo Brightwell
Tim Buckley
Jeff Buckley
Billy Buntline
Robert Byrd

John Allan Cameron
Hamilton Camp
Alex Campbell
Tony Capstick
Roger Carmen
Barbara Carns
Anita Carter
Dave Carter
Helen Carter
June Carter Cash
Johnny Cash
Harry Chapin
George Chudakoff
Bobby Clance
Liam Clancy
Paddy Clancy
Tom Clancy
Paul Clayton?
Vassar Clements (fiddler)
Buzz Collins
Johnny Collins
Ted Comben
Graham Cooper
Susan Contento
Libba Cotten*
Brian Crawford
Jim Croce

Cyril Davies
Jinx Davis
Reverend Garry Davis
Jeanine Deckers**
Maureen Delgrosso
Sandy Denny
John Denver
Erik Darling
Bud Dashiell
Diz Disley
Denny Doherty
Lonnie Donegan
Malcolm Douglas
Nick Drake
Johnny Duncan
John Dunkerley
John Dwyer

Jonathan Eberhart
Travis Edmundson
Cass Elliott
Freyda Epstein
Tommy Eytle

Richard Farina
Mimi Baez Fariña
Jackson C. Frank
Focslehead Fred
Louie Fuller


Jerry Garcia
Fred Gerlach
Bob Gibson
Terry Gillikson
Joe Glazer
Tom Glazer
Cynthia Gooding
Steve Goodman
Lou Gottlieb
Davy Graham
Cy Grant
Dave Guard
Roy Guest
Isaac Guillory
Woody Guthrie

Cliff Hall
Robin Hall
Tim Hardin
Tim Hart
Frank Harte
John Hartford
Bess Lomax Hawes
Ted Hawkins
Mary Ann Haynes
Lee Hays
Hamish Henderson
Joe Heaney
John Herald
Merritt Herring
Walter Hiatt
Lizzie Higgins
Sam Hinton
Fred Holstein
Gilbert (Cisco) Houston
Mississippi John Hurt*
Joy Hyman

Queen Caroline Hughes
Stan Hugill
Alistair Hulett

Hamish Imlach
Brian Ingham
John Isherwood
Burl Ives*

Jill Jackson (Miller)
Stan James
Orville Jenks
Craig Johnson
Brian Jones
Fred Jordan
Vera Johnson
Adrienne Johnston

John Kahn
Rick Keeling
Jo-Ann Kelly
Sylvia Kelly
Denis Kevans
Jacko Kevans
Alexis Korner
Bob Kotta
Danny Kyle

Mary LaMarca
Millard Lampell
Eamonn Largey
Kathleen Largey
Bob Lynch
Geri Lobl
Alan Lomax
Wendy Lowenstein
Bert Lloyd


George Maynard*
Sarah Makem
Tommy Makem
Haywire Mac
Margaret MacArthur
Ewan MacColl
Josh MacCrae
Alex MacEwan
Rory MacEwan
Gerry MacMahon
Miriam Makeba
Bogan Martin
John Martyn
Derek McCormack
Kate McGarrigle
Matt McGinn
Gordon McIntyre
Jimmy McKinley
Ed McCurdy
Lionel McLelland
Francie McPeake
John Meredith
Alan Mills
Richard Mills
Bill Monroe
Old Man Mose
John Murphy

Fred Neil
Pat Nelson
June Nichols
Roger Nicholson

Phil Ochs
Bridie O'Donnell
Odetta
Brian Osbourne

Don Partridge
Sandy Paton
John Pearse
John Phillips
Utah Phillips
Bill Price
Frank Purslow

Russell Quaye

Gene Raskin
Nick Reynolds
Jon Rennard
Susan Reed
Jim Reid
Ralph Rinzler
Jeannie Robertson
Walt Robertson
Paul Robeson
Stuart Robinson
Jimmie Rodgers (The Singing Brakeman)
"Big" Pete Roger
Gamble Rogers
Grant Rogers
Stan Rogers
Tony Rose

Hazel (King) Sarjeant
Pete Sayers
Martha Schlamme
Helen Schneyer
Richie Schulberg
Alan Scott
Colin Scot
Willie Scott
Al Sealey
Mike Seeger
Rod Shearman
Irwin Silber
Nina Simone
Shel Silverstein
David Spence
Bob Spray
Jo Stafford
Art Stamper
Belle Stewart
John Stewart
Walkin' Jim Stoltz
Don Stover
Redd Sullivan
Yma Sumac

Phil Tanner
Cyril Tawney
Sonny Terry
Artie Traum
Mary Travers

Harry Upton

Dave Van Ronk
Townes Van Zandt
Mervyn Vincent

Terry Wadsworth
Don Walser
Vaughn Ward
Merle Watson
Rowan Webb
Hedy West
Josh White
Wally Whyton
Hank Williams
Roy Williamson
Frank Winter
Royston Wood
Martin Winsor
Vikki Williams
Kate Wolf
Brenda Wootton
Jonathan Wootton
John Wright

Warren Zevon


*would be 100 y.o. or older now
** Sister Luc Gabriel, Soeur Sourire, "The Singing Nun"

08 Nov 10 - 06:48 AM (#3026516)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: I don't know

Lets not forget Joe Scurfield from Old Rope String Band.

08 Nov 10 - 07:39 AM (#3026548)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: BrooklynJay

Or Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly).

08 Nov 10 - 07:50 AM (#3026557)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

Those last two have already been mentioned.

I think this list includes all the ones already named in this thread who meet both criteria (folk musicians at least at some points in their careers plus deceased):

Derroll Adams
Declan Affley
Dave Alexander
John Antle
Gerry Armstrong
Clarence Ashley
Alex Atterson
Cliff Aungier
Hoyt Axton

Vic Baker
Long John Baldry
Charlie Bate
Rabbidy Baxter
Bob Beers
Evelyne Beers
Dominic Behan
Paddie Bell
Peter Bellamy
Steve Benbow
Bob Bertram
Rachel Bissex
Elmer Bleaty
Bob Blue
David Blue
Harry Boardman
Hardtack Bob
Raphael Boguslav
Mark Bolan
Ciaran Bourke
Jumbo Brightwell
Big Bill Broonzy
Tim Buckley
Jeff Buckley
Billy Buntline
Robert Byrd

Isla Cameron
John Allan Cameron
Hamilton Camp
Alex Campbell
Tony Capstick
Roger Carmen
Barbara Carns
Anita Carter
Dave Carter
Helen Carter
June Carter Cash
Johnny Cash
Eva Cassidy
Harry Chapin
George Chudakoff
Bobby Clance
Liam Clancy
Paddy Clancy
Tom Clancy
Paul Clayton?
Vassar Clements (fiddler)
Buzz Collins
Johnny Collins
Ted Comben
Susan Contento
Graham Cooper
Bob Copper
James "Brasser" Copper
Jim Copper
Ruth Copper
Libba Cotten*
Brian Crawford
Jim Croce
Elizabeth Cronin
Liz Cruickshank
Tony Cuffe

Cyril Davies
Jinx Davis
Reverend Garry Davis
Jeanine Deckers**
Jim Delahunty
Maureen Delgrosso
Sandy Denny
John Denver
Erik Darling
Bud Dashiell
Diz Disley
Denny Doherty
Lonnie Donegan
Malcolm Douglas
Nick Drake
Ronnie Drew
Johnny Duncan
John Dunkerley
John Dwyer

Jonathan Eberhart
Travis Edmundson
Cass Elliott
John England
Seamus Ennis
Freyda Epstein
Tommy Eytle

Richard Farina
Mimi Baez Fariña
Richard Farrelly
Jimmy Ferguson
Rick Fielding
Barry Finn
Dan Fogelberg
Jackson C. Frank
Focslehead Fred
Louie Fuller


Jerry Garcia
George Gelton
Siwsann George
Fred Gerlach
Bob Gibson
Terry Gillikson
Joe Glazer
Tom Glazer
Cynthia Gooding
Steve Goodman
Lou Gottlieb
Davy Graham
Cy Grant
Dave Guard
Roy Guest
Isaac Guillory
Woody Guthrie

Lesley Hale
Cliff Hall
Robin Hall
Tim Hardin
Bob Hart
Tim Hart
Frank Harte
John Hartford
Bess Lomax Hawes
Ted Hawkins
Mary Ann Haynes
Lee Hays
Hamish Henderson
Joe Heaney
John Herald
Merritt Herring
Walter Hiatt
Lizzie Higgins
Sam Hinton
Fred Holstein
Gilbert (Cisco) Houston
Queen Caroline Hughes
Stan Hugill
Mississippi John Hurt*
Alistair Hulett
Joy Hyman

Hamish Imlach
Brian Ingham
John Isherwood
Burl Ives*

Jill Jackson (Miller)
Stan James
Orville Jenks
Craig Johnson
Brian Jones
Fred Jordan
Vera Johnson
Adrienne Johnston

John Kahn
Rick Keeling
Jo-Ann Kelly
Luke Kelly
Sylvia Kelly
Denis Kevans
Jacko Kevans
Alexis Korner
Bob Kotta
Danny Kyle

Mary LaMarca
Millard Lampell
Eamonn Largey
Kathleen Largey
Sam Larner
Lead Belly*
Bert Lloyd
Geri Lobl
Gerry Lockran
Alan Lomax
Wendy Lowenstein
Bob Lynch

George Maynard*
Sarah Makem
Tommy Makem
Haywire Mac
Margaret MacArthur
Ewan MacColl
Josh MacCrae
Alex MacEwan
Rory MacEwan
Iain MacIntosh
Gerry MacMahon
Miriam Makeba
Keith Marsden
Bogan Martin
John Martyn
George Maynard*
Robert Maxwell
Derek McCormack
Ed McCurdy
Kate McGarrigle
Matt McGinn
Gordon McIntyre
Jimmy McKinley
Ed McCurdy
Lionel McLelland
Francie McPeake
John Meredith
Alan Mills
Richard Mills
Derek Moffat
Bill Monroe
Old Man Mose
John Murphy

Fred Neil
Pat Nelson
Mickey Newberry
June Nichols
Roger Nicholson
John Jacob Niles*
Anselm Noffke (of Germany's Liederjan)

Phil Ochs
Mícheál Ó Domhnaill
Bridie O'Donnell
Odetta
Brian Osbourne

Tom Paley
Dave Parry
Don Partridge
Sandy Paton
Walter Pardon
Daniel Pearl - bluegrass fiddler
John Pearse
Cyril Phillips
John Phillips
Bruce "Utah" Phillips
Cyril Poacher
Bill Price
Joan Prior
Frank Purslow

Russell Quaye

Gene Raskin
Nick Reynolds
Malvina Reynolds*
Jon Rennard
Susan Reed
Jim Reid
Jim Ringer
Ralph Rinzler
Bob Roberts
Jeannie Robertson
Walt Robertson
Paul Robeson*
Stuart Robinson
Jimmie Rodgers (The Singing Brakeman)
"Big" Pete Roger
Gamble Rogers
Grant Rogers
Stan Rogers
Tony Rose

Hazel (King) Sarjeant
Pete Sayers
Martha Schlamme
Helen Schneyer
Richie Schulberg
Alan Scott
Colin Scot
Willie Scott
Joe Scurfield
Al Sealey
Mike Seeger
Peter Sellars
Rod Shearman
Irwin Silber
Nina Simone
Shel Silverstein
Phoebe Smith
David Spence
George Spicer
Ron Spicer
Bob Spray
Jo Stafford
Art Stamper
Davy Steele
Belle Stewart
John Stewart
Michael Stewart
Walkin' Jim Stoltz
Don Stover
John Strachan
Redd Sullivan
Yma Sumac

Phil Tanner
Cyril Tawney
Sonny Terry
Scan Tester
Jake Thackray
Theresa Tooley
Artie Traum
Mary Travers
Paddy Tunney

Harry Upton

Dave Van Ronk
Townes Van Zandt
Mervyn Vincent

Terry Wadsworth
Gordon Waller (of Peter and Gordon)
Don Walser
Vaughn Ward
Lal Waterson
Merle Watson
Rowan Webb
Fred Wedlock
Hedy West
Josh White
Wally Whyton
Hank Williams
Kenneth Williams
Vikki Williams
Roy Williamson
Frank Winter
Martin Winsor
Norman Wisdom
Kate Wolf
Royston Wood
Oscar Woods
Brenda Wootton
Jonathan Wootton
John Wright

Warren Zevon


*would be 100 y.o. or older now
** Sister Luc Gabriel, Soeur Sourire, "The Singing Nun"



I may have omitted a couple of the ones who would be WAY over 100 by now.

08 Nov 10 - 09:16 AM (#3026596)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Northerner

Stanley Robertson (last year).

08 Nov 10 - 12:59 PM (#3026817)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Elmore

Attn: Genie Ted Bogan, Carl Martin, and Howard Armstrong were a black string band quite popular in the sixties and seventies, although they started playing much earlier.

08 Nov 10 - 02:08 PM (#3026886)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Elmore

Genie: I really don't think Tom Paley's dead, but Janet Boyer, Frank Proffitt, Bessie Jones, Dan Smith and Blind Jim Brewer are. Thanks for compiling the list.

08 Nov 10 - 02:55 PM (#3026928)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

Coulda sworn Frank Proffitt was on the list. I know he was at one time. DK about Tom Paley's current viability status, but he was mentioned by someone.   
I'll probably update the list when we get another couple dozen names to add. (I hope that won't be many who recently join those ranks.)

09 Nov 10 - 06:58 AM (#3027478)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Northerner

Also Duncan Williamson, a few years ago, another of the Scottish Traveller performers.

09 Nov 10 - 07:53 AM (#3027495)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Derek Sarjeant

Three more not yet mentioned :-
      
       Sydney Carter
       Jimmy Driftwood
       Steve Rye   (Blues Harmonica Player)

09 Nov 10 - 08:27 AM (#3027516)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST

Dave Van Ronk
Go to.
www.songza.com/listen/hootananny
for an online station of folk including many on these posts

09 Nov 10 - 02:17 PM (#3027740)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: I don't know

Just found out Al Jones (Alun Ashworth Jones) died a couple of years ago.

09 Nov 10 - 04:11 PM (#3027845)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Young Buchan

Lucie Stewart
Cathie Stewart
John Doughty
Charlie Wills
Harry Cox
'Old' John Reilly (though I suspect 'Young' John Reilly is as well!)
Gordon Hall
Mabs Hall
Ron Copper
Jimmy McBeath
Gordon Syrett
George Belton
Emma Vickers
Paddy Doran
Percy Ling
Alderman Ling
Tom Brown (the Norfolk one, before everyone in Devon rushes round to commiserate with Barbara)

09 Nov 10 - 04:52 PM (#3027884)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion

But Harry Cox, as I pointed out on 17 Oct, would have been 125.

~Michael~

09 Nov 10 - 05:53 PM (#3027932)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Young Buchan

And James Copper whom someone else listed would have been 175. And I doubt if John England would have been a lot younger. So why exclude The Boi Harry?

And with that, I'd like to mention Elizabeth Knepp (or Knipp). Would be pushing 400 by my reckoning.

09 Nov 10 - 06:03 PM (#3027940)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

There are hundreds of "Obit" threads in the forum that may be for folk singers (folk musicians), but there are too many to sort through at once.
Here, for starters, are a few for people whom I don't think have been added to our list yet and who, as far as I know, may fit the category to some degree:


Obit: Simon Nield, 19th September 2008
Obit: Fred Gerlach has died (Jan 2010)
Obit: Arnold Loxam - UK Theatre Organist
Obit: Jim Couza RIP August 2009
Obit: Greg Hooven May 2005
Obit: John Wells-Kiveton Park FC founder
Obit: Peter Horan RIP Oct 2010
OBIT: RIP Paul Schoenwetter
Obit: Ewen Carruthers (1942-2010)
Obit: folk radio host Suzi Wollenberg (Aug 2009)
Obit: Alan Smethurst, the Singing Postman (2000)
Obit: Viva Smith(Dangerous Curves) UK Apr 2009
Obit: Solomon Burke, October 2010
Obit: mandolinist Alison Stephens (Oct 2010)
Obit: Gary Wright of Swinton
Obit: Blossom Dearie ( 2009, age 82)
Obit: stanley floid kilarr (d. 1995)
Obit: 'Milky' Keith - Mansfield Morris Fool
Obit: Albertina Walker, Gospel Lady
Obit: RIP Neil Gauntlett (Dec 2008)
Obit: Warren Argo, d. September , 2010
Obit: singer/musician Lionel McClelland (Sep 2010)
Obit: Ginni Clemmens
Obit: Steve Warne September 2010
Obit: Guitarist Jimmy Faulkner, Dublin(March 2008)
Obit: Eric Levine, 1957-2008
Obit: Eve Sellars (FaldingworthLive) Sept 2010
Obit: Guitarist Mike Taylor RIP
Obit: Mercedes Sosa-voice of LatinAmerica Oct 2009
Obit: Guns for D-Day Bagpiper Bill Millin(2010)
Obit: Ed Kean ('It's Howdy Doody Time')
Obit: Lionel Kilberg (Aug 2008)
Obit: Sadly, Lorraine Blue has passed away(2000)
Obit: pianist Beryl Marriott RIP ( July 2010)
Obit: Raphael (Ray) Boguslav, July , 2010
Obit: Richard Fewtrell ( April 2010)

If you think any of these people should be on our "list," please post those names. Some of them aren't known primarily as "folk singers" but some may have been folkies of a sort.

I'll break up the rest of these into smaller segments. Don't want to overwhelm you.

09 Nov 10 - 06:04 PM (#3027943)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

Here are more of the "Obits" that may fit:


bit: Norman Pellegrini - WFMT - July 2009
Obit: Muff Worden (Aug 2006)
Obit: David Hammond (August 2008)
Obit: Kenny Edwards RIP August 2010
Obit: Cap'n Dave Cooper . 2010
Obit: Abbey Lincoln
Obit: Richie Hayward
Obit: songwriter Tom Hunter (June 2008)
Obit: what happened to Shag Connor?
Obit: Iain MacKintosh (August 2006)
Obit: Martin Baker R.I.P ( June 2010)
Obit: Bobby Hebb, August 2010
Obit: Mitch Miller-bandleader, music exec-Jul 2010
Obit: Ray Boguslav (July , 2010)
Obit: Fred Carter, Jr. ( July 2010)
Obit: Ross Broughm - Canada Nov. 2009
Obit: Kenneth McKellar (June 1927-April 2010)
Obit: Farewell to Bob Merrett
Obit: Mary Asquith - November 2009
Obit: Hank Cochran (1935-2010)
Obit: RIP Tuli Kupferberg (Fugs) July 2010
Obit: Hank (Phillip Mansell)
Obit: Frank Tupling - June 2010
Obit: Geoff Rye 1st July 2010
Obit: Nigel Russell, RIP August , 2009
Obit: Seamus Creagh R.I.P. (March 2009)
Obit: Craig Tinney, Tucson, AZ --
Obit: Bill Hinkley b. 1942 d. -May-2010
Obit: Frank Sidebottom - R.I.P. June 2010
Obit: Harry Gurevitch ( March 2008) Hull/Beverley
Obit: Stanley Robertson. - R.I.P. - August 2009
Obit: Crispian St. Peters ('Pied Piper')
Obit: Brixton Bert (2002)
Obit: Dave Fisher of the Highwaymen May 2010
OBIT: Tex Koenig's Passing (1999)
Obit: Stevenson Palfi RIP (Dec 2005)
Obit: Buck Graves/Uncle Josh - Dobro Player
Obit: Pete Cartlidge RIP ( May 2010)
Obit: Damon Black, songwriter (2005?)
Obit: Gary Muir Canadian singer May 2010

09 Nov 10 - 06:06 PM (#3027944)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

BTW, no need to mention which ones DON'T fit the topic of this thread. Easier to deal with it if people just identify which ones DO.

Here are a few more:
xObit: Margaret MacArthur has passed away-May 2006
Obit: George Totty
Obit: Strath Clague
Obit: Tommy McManamon ( Dec )
Obit: Hamilton Camp ( Oct 2005)
Obit: Fred Starner RIP (October 2009)
Obit: Peter Chopping ( CHOPS)- April 2010
OBIT: Gwen Sale RIP(2002)
Obit: Mark Spoelstra RIP ( 2007)
Obit: artisan/mandolinist Grant Weisbrot (2003)
Obit: Dave Bennett - March 2010
OBIT: Roger Hope, Bishop Gundulf Morris (Apr )
Obit: David Gahr RIP (May 2008)
Obit: Malcolm McLaren
Obit: Bob Gilroy(South Tyne Folk & Blues) Dec2009
Obit: Neil Lewis (Wales)[Aug 2009]
Obit: Lesley Duncan 1943-2010
Obit: Arkansas Musician Reagan Cole ( June 2008)
Obit: Gospel, blues singer Marva Wright
Obit: Alex Chilton has died - March 2010
Obit: RIP Venice Manley Aug 2004
Obit: Chuck Perdue ( , 2010)
Obit: Chris Johnson Dance Caller ( 2010)
Obit: Kathy Kay ( March ) Billy Cotton Band
Obit: Dave Cook has died,
Obit: JEEP MAN (2009?)
Obit: George Strattan Dec 2009
Obit: Toronto writer & musician Paul Quarrington
Obit: gospel scholar Dr. Horace Boyer (July 2009)
Obit: Gerald McCabe (McCabes Guitar Store)Jan 2010
Obit: Country singer Carl Smith RIP(Jan. 2010)

10 Nov 10 - 04:48 AM (#3028157)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion

Sorry, Young Buchan, but I beat you to it over 3 weeks ago!~~

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MtheGM - PM
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:51 AM

Will Kemp, Shax's clown who did the 9·days·wonder dance from London to Norwich in 1600. Mrs Knipp, the actress whom Pepys recorded in his Diary having heard singing Barbara Allen on 2 Jan 1666 ......

~Michael~

10 Nov 10 - 08:27 AM (#3028246)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: BrooklynJay

I forgot to mention Jackie Alper (d. 2007).

10 Nov 10 - 01:39 PM (#3028449)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Young Buchan

"Sorry, Young Buchan, but I beat you to it over 3 weeks ago!~~"

I wait 400 years to make a joke and I lose it by 24 days. In the world of esprit d'escalier the steps are awfully steep!

10 Nov 10 - 02:14 PM (#3028494)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

MtheGM

No need to re-mention Will Shemp, Mrs. Knipp, and other multi-centennarians. They've already been removed from the compiled list. : D

10 Nov 10 - 02:15 PM (#3028497)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

I'm not going to add King David, the psalmist, either. ; D

10 Nov 10 - 03:30 PM (#3028592)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Young Buchan

Alright, I'll pick just one more out, even though she would be well over age. Cecilia Costello is now dead. I point that out because once before in her lifetime she was reported dead in the local paper. A neighbour came round, knocked on the door, and when Cecilia opened it, asked the classic question: Mrs Costello, you're not really dead, are you?

10 Nov 10 - 05:00 PM (#3028673)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Tannywheeler

Hally Wood, alas.
Praise be to God, NOT Pete S.
& NOT Jean Ritchie.; so glad NOT Doc W., Ronnie G. Tw

23 Nov 10 - 10:14 AM (#3038669)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Roger C.

Not a "singer" as such but a much loved entertainer and character on the UK folk scene:

Mrs. Ackroyd.

23 Nov 10 - 10:45 AM (#3038682)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: sheila

Trevor Crozier

23 Nov 10 - 04:18 PM (#3038928)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Genie

Derek Wicks (Nov. 21, 2010)

23 Nov 10 - 06:27 PM (#3039027)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Aeolaman

Strange, Sandy D's husband, Trevor Lucas, hasn't been mentioned. Nor Nick Drake. Tom Paley IS alive and well, aged 82, and regularly plays floors spots at the Islington Folk Club.

26 Nov 10 - 08:28 AM (#3040777)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Tattie Bogle

Nick Drake's in Genie's huge list on 3rd and 8th November - which was compiled from postings above it. (Guest on 17th October)

02 Jun 12 - 05:27 PM (#3358510)
Subject: value of alan mills albums like canadian folk song
From: GUEST

davesflyfishing05yahoo.ca

02 Jun 12 - 05:37 PM (#3358514)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Charley Noble

spam????

03 Jun 12 - 11:59 AM (#3358769)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore

Looks like somebody is screwing around. In any case, I'll add Doc Watson, Bill Morrissey, Jack Hardy, Jeff Hardy.

03 Jun 12 - 05:06 PM (#3358867)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Big Phil

Recently lost - Barney McKenna. Resting on Fiddlers Green with the rest of the Lads.

Phil*

03 Jun 12 - 05:50 PM (#3358882)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Ray

Adge Cutler
Brian Brocklehurst
Ian Campbell

03 Jun 12 - 06:03 PM (#3358889)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,mando-player-91

Did anyone mention Tommy Makem?

-Shepard

03 Jun 12 - 07:10 PM (#3358909)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Stringsinger

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.

03 Jun 12 - 07:32 PM (#3358919)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore

John Herald died in 2005. John Stewart died in 2008. Pete Seeger celebrated his 93rd birthday on May 2012.

03 Jun 12 - 08:14 PM (#3358939)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,mando-player-91

Party because Joe Mccarthy was a Alcoholic and just plain evil but Bruce is right

03 Jun 12 - 08:38 PM (#3358953)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Ken Brock

ataik Ian Campbell is still living

10 Jul 12 - 06:30 PM (#3374651)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST

sylvia kelly was my mum, nice to find her name here, gone but not forgotton.
Issac Gilory should be on your list one of the all time greats.

10 Jul 12 - 07:25 PM (#3374668)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,DTM

Matt Armour
Mary Brookbank

10 Jul 12 - 07:29 PM (#3374672)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST

Jim Reid (Wild Geese)
John Watt (Kelty Clippie)

10 Jul 12 - 08:25 PM (#3374694)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: PHJim

Willie P. Bennett,
Zeke Mazurek,
Gene MacLelland,
Daisy DeBolt,
Colleen Peterson,
Duck Donald,
Jackie Washington

10 Jul 12 - 08:42 PM (#3374709)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: ollaimh

tex koenig

10 Jul 12 - 09:39 PM (#3374720)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore

Mance Lipscomb, Johnny Shines, John Jackson, Brownie McGhee, Rev. Gary Davis.(listed but misspelled at least 6 times), Jim Taylor, Blind Willie McTell.

11 Jul 12 - 11:54 AM (#3374916)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore

Daniel Womack, Piedmont blues and gospel singer/guitarist. (1905-1996) Can be heard on line at The Digital Library of Appalachia.

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11 Jul 12 - 02:40 PM (#3374977)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore

Tich Richardson, Logan English, Peter LaFarge, Johnny Cunningham.

11 Jul 12 - 02:48 PM (#3374981)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Blandiver

Frank Williamson who was a mainstay of The Durham City Folk Club & Durham Folk Party. One of the finest voices ever, and a master at the songs of his native Durham & Northumbria.

11 Jul 12 - 03:00 PM (#3374992)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore

Freyda Epstein

11 Jul 12 - 03:12 PM (#3375000)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: SPB-Cooperator

Plus the unknown and unnamed generations of folk singers and musician who kept the folk tradition alive for centuries before collectors took an interest.

11 Jul 12 - 04:04 PM (#3375020)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore

Lotus Dickey

11 Jul 12 - 04:39 PM (#3375030)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore

Sorry. Repeated Freyda Epstein.

11 Jul 12 - 04:43 PM (#3375031)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore

Pink Anderson, Etta Baker, Buddy Moss, Dave "Honeyboy" Edwards, Pinetop Perkins.

11 Jul 12 - 08:56 PM (#3375093)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore

Derek Bell, Doug Quimby, Mike Waterson.

12 Jul 12 - 07:24 AM (#3375212)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore

Frank Proffitt Jr.

12 Jul 12 - 08:24 AM (#3375221)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore

Dick Fegy, Ray Fisher, Almeida Riddle, Frank Warner.

12 Jul 12 - 03:02 PM (#3375379)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: it'smagic

I don't see Barney McKenna anywhere on the list. But, enough, this is too depressing! It seems like more are dead than alive. Unless we want to pick one a day to remember and honor. The Happy Birthday thread is a good place.

12 Jul 12 - 04:22 PM (#3375409)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST

Wade Hemsworth
Sean Gagnier
Lindsay Cameron

12 Jul 12 - 09:33 PM (#3375522)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore

Caryl P. Weiss

12 Jul 12 - 09:46 PM (#3375525)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore

Tommy Thompson

13 Jul 12 - 05:42 AM (#3375617)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Waddon Pete

Mudcat has its own "In Memoriam" thread which exists to celebrate those who have passed on since Mudcat was created.

It contains many of the above names as well as some who have not been mentioned here. It is always worth a visit as it has links to click to learn more.

Best wishes,

Peter

http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=142251

(My computer resolutely refuses to do blue clicks!) [....but Joe Offer can do them in his sleep.]

13 Jul 12 - 10:57 AM (#3375698)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore

Thanks, Pete

13 Jul 12 - 02:57 PM (#3375823)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Al B

No mention of Bert Jansch? What a loss that was!

13 Jul 12 - 04:47 PM (#3375870)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Waddon Pete

He's there on the 'In Memoriam' Thread......dip in and have a look.

Best wishes,

Peter

13 Jul 12 - 09:29 PM (#3375968)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Natalie J

It has been fascinating reading this thread. Some thought it was a farce and didn't take it seriously. Those of us who were folkies before the folk music revival happened regard names of the deceased with tremendous interest. After all, they were folks we listened to and some of them in person, and we loved traditional folk music heart and soul. It was our very life. I said once that I would never read the newspaper obituaries (sounded so morbid), but I now do that quite regularly. If I see someone I know (knew), I read the entire obit. The rest of you may realize this when you are old and gray. What surprises me are those reported as gone who were a lot younger than me, I thought.

14 Jul 12 - 04:27 AM (#3376045)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: BanjoRay

Astonishing that none of the following have been listed:

Sonny Terry, Roscoe Holcomb, Dock Boggs, Riley Puckett, Tommy Jarrell, Uncle Dave Macon, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Maggie Hammons, Cisco Houston, Big Bill Broonzy, Hobart Smith.

These have all been around in my lifetime, and were all Great.

14 Jul 12 - 08:00 AM (#3376075)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore

As Waddon Pete points out, a lot of the musicians listed or not listed here have been mentioned on his In Memoriam page.Sonny Terry, Cisco Houston, and Big Bill Broonzy have been mentioned at least twice on this thread.

14 Jul 12 - 08:32 AM (#3376079)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Megan L

Given the average age of members of this site a who is still alive thread more advantageous

14 Jul 12 - 09:09 AM (#3376087)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Jimi

Whitney Houston
Elvis
Gene Pitney

14 Jul 12 - 12:36 PM (#3376151)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Elmore

I have done more than my share to perpetuate this dreary thread. I declare it to be out of control. Somebody get a stick and kill it.

i

24 Feb 14 - 07:12 PM (#3604538)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Norm

So, has this entire list been compiled into one master list? I keep scrolling down and down..and down....a long way to go.

24 Feb 14 - 10:22 PM (#3604571)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: PHJim

If I see a thread that doesn't interest me I find it easy to just not click on it, but go on to something that does catch my interest. No one will find every thread to their liking, but why add a post complaining about how boring you find the thread or try to add fake names that you think are funny.   If it doesn't appeal, move on to something else. Obviously, some folks are interested.

15 Jan 16 - 07:36 AM (#3765703)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion

Checked back on this old thread to research something. Feel moved to add one of my favourite quotations, tho it comes from a book which overall I do not greatly care for -- Laurence Sterne's 'Tristram Shandy', 1759-67:

"We had a fat, foolish scullion ... Master Bobby is dead, said Obadiah; he is certainly dead! –– So am not I, said the foolish scullion."

Not so foolish that time, IMO.

And so am not I!

≈M≈

But who is to add since last entry nearly two years ago?

17 Jan 16 - 06:31 PM (#3766412)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,niccolo dappertutto

Joe Hill- though may be in over 100 group by now but deserves a mention.
Margaret Barry
Delia Murphy
John McCormack
Victor Jara
Kirsty McColl
John Renbourne

18 Jan 16 - 12:28 AM (#3766449)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion

Thank you. Hadn't heard of John Renbourn's death.

Margaret Barry died in 1989 [see wikipedia], John McCormack in 1945, Kirsty MacColl in 2000, so should all have been listed before. Thanks for catching up with these.

≈M≈

18 Jan 16 - 08:48 PM (#3766559)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: kendall

Theodor Bikel,
Granpa Jones,
David Akeman (Stringbean)

19 Jan 16 - 03:35 AM (#3766602)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,LynnH

Louisa Jo Killen

19 Jan 16 - 03:53 PM (#3766762)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Waddon Pete

It may be worth noting that the "In Memoriam" thread exists to enable Mudcatters to research those folk artists who have died.

Peter

21 Jan 16 - 08:52 PM (#3767309)
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Tattie Bogle

Andy M Stewart on 27.12.15. There is an obit thread for him.