- Pete Seeger
Peter Seeger (born May 3, 1919), almost universally known as Pete Seeger, is a folk singer, political activist, and author. As a member of the Weavers, he had a string of hits, including a 1949 recording of Leadbelly's "Goodnight Irene" that topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. He was formerly a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America and a major contributor to folk and pioneer of protest music in the 1950s and the 1960s.
- Alvin Youngblood Hart
Alvin "Youngblood" Hart (born 1963 in Oakland, California) is an American musician. Influenced in early childhood by the Mississippi Country Blues performed by older relatives, Hart is known as one of the world's foremost practitioners of that genre. Hart is also known as a faithful torchbearer for the '60s & '70s guitar rock of his youth, as well as Western Swing and vintage Country. His music has been compared to a list of diverse artists ranging from Leadbelly, …
- Cisco Houston
Gilbert Vandine 'Cisco' Houston was an American folk singer who is closely associated with Woody Guthrie due to their extensive history of recording together. Houston was a regular recording artist for Moses Asch's Folkways recording studio. He also performed with such folk/blues musicians as Leadbelly, Sonny Terry, and the Almanac Singers.
- Clifford Jordan
Clifford Laconia Jordan (September 2, 1931, Chicago - March 27, 1993, Manhattan) was an inside/outside sax player who held his own with Eric Dolphy in the 1964 Charles Mingus Sextet. Jordan had his own sound on tenor saxophone almost from the start. He gigged around Chicago with Max Roach, Sonny Stitt, and some R&B groups before moving to New York in 1957.
- Oscar Brand
Oscar Brand (born February 7, 1920, in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a folk singer and songwriter. In his career, spanning over 60 years, he has composed at least 300 songs and released nearly 100 albums. He has played alongside such legends of American folk music as Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger. He currently resides in Great Neck, New York. He has been hosting the radio show "Oscar Brand's Folksong Festival" every Saturday at 10 pm, …
- Michael Hurley
Michael Hurley is an American singer/guitarist, reportedly born December 20, 1941. He also plays the fiddle. Hurley's debut album, First Songs, was recorded for Folkways Records in 1965 on the same reel-to-reel machine that taped Leadbelly's Last Sessions. He was "discovered" by blues and jazz historian Frederick Ramsey III, and subsequently championed by boyhood friend Jesse Colin Young, who released his 2nd & 3rd albums on The Youngbloods' Warner Bros. imprint, Raccoon.
- Moe Asch
Moses ("Moe") Asch (born December 2, 1905, Warsaw; died October 19, 1986, New York City) was the founder of Folkways Records. The label, founded in 1948, was instrumental in bringing folk music into the American mainstream. Asch worked with such famous folk and blues singers as Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger and Ella Jenkins. He was the son of Yiddish language novelist and dramatist Sholem Asch and the younger brother of novelist Nathan Asch.
- Earl Robinson
Earl Hawley Robinson was a songwriter and composer from Seattle, Washington. Robinson is probably as well remembered for his left-leaning political views (a member of the Communist Party in the 1930s) as he is for his music, including the song "Joe Hill" and the cantata "Ballad for Americans". In addition, he wrote many popular songs and was a composer for Hollywood films. He studied violin, viola and piano as a child, …
- John Herald
John Herald (September 6, 1939 - July 18, 2005) was an American folk and bluegrass songwriter, solo and studio musician, and one-time member of The Greenbriar Boys trio. Herald was born in Manhattan in 1939, to an Armenian born poet father. It was through him that Herald was first exposed to live performances by blues and folk legends Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie. While at a summer camp in 1954, Herald was inspired by a performance by Pete Seeger.
- Ethan Daniel Davidson
Ethan Daniel Davidson is a folk singer from the United States. He was born in Lansing, MI. In his late teens Davidson began touring the country, recording and singing politically charged folk songs in the tradition of folk pioneers such as Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. He has since recorded seven full-length albums. These albums blend several musical styles including folk, rock, hip-hop, indie, and country; jumping seamlessly from one genre to the other.
- Elmore D
Elmore D., born near Liège in 1946, blues musician. His real name is Daniel Droixhe and is also professor at the [[University of Liège] where he is giving lectures on the history and culture of Wallonia. The name Elmore is a reference to Elmore James whose slide guitar sound he used to imitate at the beginning of his career. In 1988, he was nominated for the Paris-Bagneux Blues Contest and played in "avant-première" of the Chicago Blues Festival.
- Jaime Brockett
A New England-based folk singer, Jaime Brockett enjoyed cult status in the 1969-early 1970s era with his debut album, "Remember the Wind and the Rain", with his idiosyncratic talking blues numbers. Brockett was a favorite of devotees of late night progressive rock FM radio stations, particularly with his thirteen minute long adaptation of Leadbelly’s (via Blind Lemon Jefferson) "The Titanic", rechristened "The Legend of the U.S.S. Titanic", …
- Gussie Davis
Gussie Lord Davis (1863 - 1899) was an African-American songwriter from Cincinnati, Ohio. Davis was one of America's earliest successful African-Americans, having been the first Black songwriter to acquire fame on Tin Pan Alley as a composer of minstrels.
- Graham Bowers
Graham Bowers was born during a World War II bombing raid on Manchester in 1943. Brought up on a mixed diet of his older sisters’ interests in 1940s and 1950s popular music, and his father’s record collection of jazz and country blues, an eclectic mix of artists such as Johnny Ray, Guy Mitchell, Django Reinhardt, Sidney Bechet and Leadbelly were household names, and marked the milestones of his early life.
- German Goldenshteyn
German Goldenshteyn, or Goldenshtayn (2 September 1934 – June 10 2006) was born in the Bessarabian shtetl of Otaci, then in Romania, now in Moldova. He was a clarinetist and musicologist who brought his native region's klezmer tradition to the USA. In 1994 he arrived with nearly a thousand klezmer tunes (many previously unknown) that he had transcribed over the years. This repository of tunes, together with the many concerts and workshops he gave, …
- Dave "snaker" Ray
Dave "Snaker" Ray (August 17, 1943 - November 28, 2002) was an American blues singer and guitarist from St. Paul, Minnesota who was most notably associated with Spider John Koerner and Tony Glover in the early Sixties Folk Revival. Together, the three released albums under the name "Koerner, Ray & Glover". Ray's repertoire featured a number of field hollers and Leadbelly songs and hollers.
- Tom Bohannan
Here I am. I am currently living in Dayton, Nevada (near Carson City/Lake Tahoe) with Kim, my beautiful girlfriend of over two years now and our two dogs. We moved up here from Vegas in June 2006 due to her job and we all love it. This place makes Vegas look like a dump. We have a nice home that lies in a valley between two mountain ranges. Granted, there's not as much to do here as far as nightlife goes, but there's so much more to do outdoors.
- Jason Whetzell
I made these shows.
- Michael Lori
- David Paradine
- Russell Heller
I have a website: www.russheller.com, it has more info than here. Remember that Asimov book where people never meet face to face, only through holograms? Yup, that's where we're headed. Can I Evite you to my blog? Barf. Adding someone on MySpace is not the same as being in contact with them. Facebook is obviously the new MySpace as 10 people I haven't spoken to in ages added me, and not so we could get back in touch. I moved back to Brooklyn in July.
- Gena
"The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is." - Lenny Bruce.
- Erwin
I like:.
- Sara Levine
Give me swing dancing, blues dancing, friends, art, music, poetry, and comedy, and I'm good to go.
- Nathan Kerr
Have lived in the SF Bay Area for my entire life. I am a history major. International affairs and geopolitics are also of great interest to me. Love my ornery old SOB of a cat and my Golden Retriever. Enjoy reading, but am a slow reader. Something of a music and film nerd. Insatiable appetite abounds for most art in general. Snobbish tendencies can become pervasive if not kept in check. Very indecisive.
- Chantal
Mfleh. Add me on msn if ya wanna know more: dwninthedrk@hotmail.com.
- Jeff
Can't Tell Me Nothing (Zach Galifianakis version)
- Lawrence Hocking
tall skinny tattooed humanoid carbon based lifeform (subject to change). i tattoo for a living, and i love it. i work out of the world famous Westside Tattoo in West End, in Brisbane, Australia. drop in and say Hi if you're in the 'hood.
- Randy Michaud
My band:.
- Kate Obrien
Iâm a bi, poly, kinky femme fat grrrl, currently getting a PhD in English lit and teaching. I co-parent a fabulous little girl and I also share my life with a truly awesome cat, Chicken. I have piercings and tattoos--including lines from Keats. I'm smart. I'm funny. I donât hide the light of my inner sex goddess under a bushel. I love my fatness. I'm political but not dogmatic.
- Stephen Steele
I was walking to the kitchen for some Golden Grahams when I accidentally stepped into an alternate dimension, and soon I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind of looked like Jamie Farr. They sucked out my internal organs and they took some Polaroids and said I was a darn good sport. As a way of saying thank you, they offered to transport me back to any point in history that I would care to go.
- Ben Exworthy
So, I grew up in Ohio, but overcame this nearly fatal malignancy to infect Seattle with my own brand of.....me. Yeah, that's right, superballs. I've got quadrillions of them. And lenticulars, oooooh pretty, pretty lenticulars. I carry my own lockpick set, but for beneficent purposes only. Mostly. And I can spell correctly.
- Damian
I used to work in music PR & artist management. I've recently been working with some ace people on a new music festival taking place next summer, the details of which are being kept under wraps at the moment. It's gonna be unlike any other though... All will be revealed in due time... I also host a radio show, The Evening Eclectic UK, every Tuesday evening 9pm-12 (Pacific Time) on 90.7 KFSR in California, playing a mix of new and old stuff from the UK.
- Aparna
All I can say is that my life is pretty plain.
- Casey
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- Rob Coli
I'm a nice person. I like stuff, and also things. I also sometimes speak German in my sleep.
- Steven Warren
Looking for Ramone down at the Snake Farm. Shs is explaining the charm of the snake farm. Ain't much to do lest a little kid gets bit. Snake Farm, just sounds Nasty.
- Charlie Behrens
Hello. I was born up a Shepherd's Leg in West London, and after growing up amid cows and sheep in Suffolk, moved back to London when i was 18. It was there that I decided to hurl my poor little brain out of the window in a whirlwind of warehouse raves and torrid partying.
- Kurt Schneider
Wow, this myspace thing is intense. In one afternoon I've connected with people all over the world that I haven't talked to in years. So, I guess I'm supposed to talk about me....here's a short history: After being born in St. Louis, MO my folks moved me to Ft Smith, AR. The summer between 6th and 7th grade (1990 for those of you keeping score at home), we picked up and moved again to some middle of nowhere town called Inola, OK.
- Katie Rice
Hello! Please email me first before asking to be MySpace friends! I'm afraid of strangers.