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'The role of singer/songwriter has never much appealed to me,' writes Dave Van Ronk in the liner notes to this album, and it may seem like an odd remark for a performer who had a lot to do with promoting the careers of such singer/songwriters as Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. But what Van Ronk means is that he has never been much interested in taking on the role of singer/songwriter for himself. Although he is usually mentioned in sentences that include the names of Dylan, Mitchell, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, and other Greenwich Village folksingers of the 1960s, Van Ronk is primarily an interpretive singer with a repertoire of traditional folk-blues songs along with covers of the songs of his peers. Still, he has penned the odd song on occasion, and Going Back to Brooklyn is the first album he's made that is devoted entirely to his own compositions. (As it turned out, he would never make another one.) As might be expected, he did not sit down and pen a whole new batch of material; many of these songs are ones he wrote years and even decades previously, and some of them he has recorded before. (For example, 'Zen Koans Gonna Rise Again' first appeared on No Dirty Names in 1966, and 'Last Call' was on Songs for Aging Children in 1973.) And in several cases, these are not so much full-fledged songs as little novelty ditties (the a cappella 'Tantric Mantra' and 'The Whores of San Pedro' clock in at little over half a minute each, and the similarly unaccompanied antiwar harangue 'Luang Prabang' runs 1:36) or guitar instrumentals ('Antelope Rag,' 'Left Bank Blues').
These are the kinds of pieces an itinerant musician might come up with while waiting for a gig to start, and Van Ronk indicates that that's just what happened in some cases. Even when he writes a well-developed original, he basically adapts one of his favorite folk-blues fingerpicking patterns to accompany a lyric idea, the most outlandish of which must be 'Garden State Stomp,' which is nothing more or less than a recitation of unusual town names in New Jersey. To the extent that his original lyrics are personally revealing, they speak of drinking and folksinging, sometimes in a touching way, notably 'Gaslight Rag,' a tribute to a Greenwich Village bar and its folksinging patrons, and 'Last Call.' Van Ronk uses his raspy, expressive voice, which contrasts with the sweetness of his guitar playing, to get across harsh, bitter feelings in such songs as the self-lacerating 'Losers' and 'Luang Prabang,' but only at the end, in the heartbreaking 'Another Time and Place,' to expose love and regret. Going Back to Brooklyn is unique among Dave Van Ronk albums for the portrait it provides of the artist, even if on the surface it sounds like many of this other records. William Ruhlmann.
Mar 27, 2009 He buried him a little dog and He never came back. He was an interpreter who mastered blues and kept going. Dave Van Ronk – Inside Dave Van Ronk.
Dave Van Ronk performs at the 1968 Philadelphia Folk Festival. Background information Birth name David Kenneth Ritz Van Ronk Born ( 1936-06-30)June 30, 1936, U.S. Died February 10, 2002 ( 2002-02-10) (aged 65) New York City Genres, Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter Instruments Guitar, piano Years active 1959–2002 Labels David Kenneth Ritz 'Dave' Van Ronk (June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002) was an American.
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An important figure in the and New York City's scene in the 1960s, he was nicknamed the 'Mayor of '. Van Ronk's work ranged from old English ballads to, and. He was also known for performing instrumental guitar music, especially his transcription of 'St. Louis Tickle' and 's '. Van Ronk was a widely admired avuncular figure in 'the Village', presiding over the coffeehouse folk culture and acting as a friend to many up-and-coming artists by inspiring, assisting, and promoting them.
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Folk performers whom he befriended include, and. Bob Dylan recorded Van Ronk's arrangement of the traditional song ' on his first album, which turned into a chart-topping rock single in 1964, helping inaugurate the folk-rock movement. Van Ronk received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in December 1997. He died in a New York hospital of cardiopulmonary failure while undergoing postoperative treatment for. This section needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
(April 2016) Van Ronk was born in to a family that was 'mostly Irish, despite the Dutch name.' He moved from Brooklyn to in 1951 and began attending Holy Child Jesus Catholic School, whose students were mainly of Irish descent. He had been performing in a since 1949, but left before finishing high school, and spent the next few years bumming around lower Manhattan and twice shipping out with the. His first professional gigs playing tenor banjola were with various traditional jazz bands around New York, of which he later observed: 'We wanted to play traditional jazz in the worst way.and we did!' But the revival had already passed its prime, and Van Ronk turned to performing blues he had stumbled across while shopping for jazz 78s, by artists like and. Van Ronk was not the first white musician to perform African-American blues, but became noted for his interpretation of it in its original context. By about 1958, he was firmly committed to the folk-blues style, accompanying himself with his own acoustic guitar.
He performed, and, occasionally writing his own songs but generally arranging the work of earlier artists and his folk revival peers. At one point, he was considered for a folk-pop trio with. Van Ronk's voice and style were considered too idiosyncratic and the role eventually went to (who became the 'Paul' in ). He became noted both for his large physical stature and his expansive charisma, which bespoke an intellectual, cultured gentleman of many talents.
Among his many interests were cooking, (he was active for some time in, referring to it as 'mind rot', and contributed to ), world history, and politics. During the 1960s he supported radical left-wing political causes and was a member of the and the Trotskyist American Committee for the (ACFI, later renamed the Workers League ). In 1974, he appeared at 'An Evening For ', a concert organized by, alongside such other performers as his old friend, to protest the overthrow of the democratic socialist government of Chile and to aid refugees from the U.S.-backed military junta led. After Ochs's suicide in 1976, Van Ronk joined the many performers who played at his memorial concert in the at, playing his bluesy version of the traditional folk ballad '.
Although Van Ronk was less politically active in later years, he remained committed to anarchist and socialist ideals and was a dues-paying member of the (IWW) almost until his death. In 2000, he performed at Blind Willie's in, clothed in garish garb, speaking fondly of his impending return to Greenwich Village. He reminisced over tunes like 'You've Been a Good Old Wagon,' a song teasing a worn-out lover, which he ruefully remarked had seemed humorous to him back in 1962. He was married to Terri Thal in the 1960s, lived for many years with Joanne Grace, then married Andrea Vuocolo, with whom he spent the rest of his life. He continued to perform for four decades and gave his last concert just a few months before his death.
He found it amusing to be called 'a legend in his own time'. Van Ronk died before completing work on his memoirs, which were finished by his collaborator, and published in 2005 as The Mayor Of MacDougal Street. In 2004, a section of Sheridan Square, where Barrow Street meets Washington Place, was renamed Dave Van Ronk Street in his memory. Cultural impact. This section does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged and.
(April 2016). Sir mix a lot chief boot knocka rar. 1972: Van Ronk (includes Folksinger and Inside Dave Van Ronk in their entirety. Later released on CD as ). 1988:. 1989:. 1991: (Smithsonian Folkways). 1992:.
2002: (includes all of In the Tradition and most of ). 2012: Bluesmaster (includes all of Sings Ballads, Blues and a Spiritual and selections from Dave Van Ronk Sings). 2013: (vinyl reissue) As guest. 1958: Skiffle in Stereo (The Orange Blossom Jug Five).
1959:. 1959: Fo'csle Songs and Shanties (by Paul Clayton) - Van Ronk sings on all songs. 1963: Newport Folk Festival 1963 The Evening Concerts Vol. 2. 1964: Blues from Newport.
1964: The Blues Project. 1995: Life Lines, Peter, Paul and Mary,. 1998: Other Voices, Too, Nanci Griffith. 1999: The Man From God Knows Where, Tom Russell Bibliography Van Ronk was author of a posthumous memoir, The Mayor of MacDougal Street (2005) written with. Anecdotes from the book were used as a source for the film. Van Ronk and Richard Ellington collected and edited The Bosses’ Songbook: 32 Songs to Stifle the Flames of Discontent, Second Edition – A Collection of Modern Political Songs and Satire (Richard Ellington, publisher: New York, 1959).
This originally 50¢ staple-bound paperback of lyrics in 1959 carried an asking price of $265 on AbeBooks.com (accessed February 6, 2015); the booklet is downloadable as two files (, ). References. Larry Rother.
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The LP was issued as Fo'c'sle Songs and Chanties, by Paul Clayton and the Fo'c'sle Singers, and has remained in the Folkways.' External links., About the book. Dave Walsh (May 7, 1998).
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Van Ronk was a source for the screenplay, 'Inside Llewyn Davis'. David Browne (December 2, 2013).
Rolling Stone. Meet the folk singer who inspired 'Inside Llewyn Davis'. Milo Miles (November 25, 2013). National Public Radio.
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