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Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn Silver Threads and Golden Needles Music video 25 October 2009
"Music video by Dolly Parton;Tammy Wynette;Loretta Lynn performing Silver Threads And Golden Needles. (C) 1993 Sony BMG Music Entertainment"
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO4SYPRa3pI
Wyatt Flores USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/
Alana Springsteen USA
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/
Mya Byrne USA
https://www.npr.org/artists/1161007044/
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/01/
Molly Tuttle USA
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/03/
Billy Strings USA
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/26/
Brent Cobb USA
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/28/
Mustafa Canada
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/
Lukas Nelson USA
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/
Swamp Dogg USA
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/09/
Jon Pardi USA
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/19/
Billy Ray Cyrus USA
Lil Nas X - Old Town Road (Official Movie) ft. Billy Ray Cyrus Video Lil Nas X 17 May 2019
Official video for Lil Nas X’s Billboard #1 hit, “Old Town Road (Remix)” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus.
Special guest appearances from Chris Rock, Haha Davis, Rico Nasty, Diplo, Jozzy, Young Kio, and Vince Staples.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2Ov5jzm3j8
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/17/
The Lumineers USA
https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2020/01/10/
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/13/
Steve Earle USA
https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2019/01/09/
James Taylor USA
Taylor’s breakout second album, Sweet Baby James.
Photograph: Warner Bros
‘I was a bad influence on the Beatles': James Taylor on Lennon, love and recovery The Guardian Mon 17 Feb 2020 06.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/17/
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/20/ 1008271419/joni-mitchell-masterpiece-at-50-her-kind-of-blue
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/17/
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Jason Eady USA
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/02/
Kathy Mattea USA
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/19/
Priscilla Renea USA
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/23
Bobbie Gentry USA
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/09/
Tom Paxton USA
https://www.npr.org/2013/11/04/
Shania Twain Canada
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/28/
Garth Brooks USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/05/
Maren Larae Morris USA
http://www.npr.org/2016/04/01/
Reba McEntire USA
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/04/
Bellowhead UK
http://www.theguardian.com/music/bellowhead
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/19/
folk music archive > The Full English
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jul/25/
The Chicks (formerly the Dixie Chicks) USA
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/
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Margaret LeAnn Rimes Cibrian USA
known professionally as LeAnn Rimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/
Blake Tollison Shelton USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/
Bridie Monds-Watson – aka SOAK Ireland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2013/jan/26/
Martin Carthy UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/17/
Mumford & Sons UK
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jul/01/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/24/
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Laura Beatrice Marling UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/19/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/apr/28/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/sep/01/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/05/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/audio/2010/mar/31/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog+laura-marling
Toby Keith USA
multi-platinum-selling singer
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/13/
Taylor Swift USA
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/taylor-swift https://www.theguardian.com/music/taylor-swift https://www.npr.org/artists/120581188/taylor-swift
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/
George Strait USA
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Diana Jones USA
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John Rich USA
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/arts/music/
Tracy Chapman USA
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Lucinda Williams USA
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/09/
The Judds USA
Grammy-award winning country music duo
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/04/
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/30/
Julie Ann Felix USA / UK
Julie Felix at a party with Paul McCartney around 1966.
At the time she was the resident singer on the satirical TV show The Frost Report.
Photograph: J Barry Peake Rex/Shutterstock
Once more with Julie Felix: at 80, the folk star playing after all these years The Guardian Sat 19 May 2018 20.59 BST Last modified on Sat 19 May 2018 22.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/19/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/19/
Charlie McCoy USA
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/08/
Fairport Convention UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/may/13/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/aug/05/
Simon and Garfunkel USA
Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence (from The Concert in Central Park) Music video recorded on September 19, 1981,
in Central Park, New York City, USA. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAEppFUWLfc
Related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concert_in_Central_Park
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Roni Stoneman USA 1938-2024
Roni Stoneman in the 1960s. Her death leaves only one surviving member of her large musical family, which was inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame.
Photograph: Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Roni Stoneman, Country Music’s ‘First Lady of the Banjo,’ Dies at 85 A featured player on ‘Hee Haw’ and a member of the famed Stoneman Family, she was the first woman to play modern bluegrass banjo on a phonograph record. NYT Published Feb. 26, 2024 Updated Feb. 27, 2024 10:03 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/
the first woman to play modern bluegrass banjo on a phonograph record.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/
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Toby Keith Covel USA 1961-2024
known professionally as Toby Keith
larger-than-life singer-songwriter of No. 1 country hits like “Who’s Your Daddy?” and “Made in America” and one of the biggest stars to come out of Nashville in three decades (...) Singing in an alternately declamatory and crooning baritone, Mr. Keith cultivated a boisterous, in-your-face persona with recordings like “I Wanna Talk About Me” and “Beer for My Horses.” Built around clever wordplay and droll humor — and more than a little macho bluster — both topped the Billboard country chart, with “Beer for My Horses,” a twangy, Rolling Stones-style rocker that featured Willie Nelson as guest vocalist, crossing over to the pop Top 40.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/
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Roger Henry Brough Whittaker UK 1936-2023
folk singer famous for Durham Town
British singer, who retired in 2012, sold nearly 50m records worldwide after breakthrough in 1962
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/18/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/20/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/18/
Len Hunt Chandler Jr. USA 1935-2023
early fixture of the folk music revival that swept through Greenwich Village in the late 1950s and ’60s and who sang alongside Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and other higher-profile stars at civil rights marches and Vietnam War protests
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. Canada 1938-2023
Canadian folk singer whose rich, plaintive baritone and gift for melodic songwriting made him one of the most popular recording artists of the 1970s,
(...)
a fast-rising star in Canada in the early 1960s, broke through to international success when his friends and fellow Canadians Ian and Sylvia Tyson recorded two of his songs, “Early Morning Rain” and “For Lovin’ Me.”
When Peter, Paul and Mary came out with their own versions, and Marty Robbins reached the top of the country charts with Mr. Lightfoot’s “Ribbon of Darkness,” Mr. Lightfoot’s reputation soared.
Overnight, he joined the ranks of songwriters like Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton, all of whom influenced his style.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/03/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/01/
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David Van Cortlandt Crosby USA 1941-2023
David Crosby in 1976.
He was inducted twice into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, as a founding member of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
Photograph: Gijsbert Hanekroot Redferns, via Getty Images
David Crosby, Folk-Rock Voice of the 1960s Whose Influence Spanned Decades, Dies at 81 He was an original member of the Byrds and a founder of Crosby, Stills & Nash. But he was almost as well known for his troubled personal life as for his music. NYT January 19, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/02/
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/22/
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Loretta Lynn USA 1932-2022
country music icon who brought unparalleled candor about the domestic realities of working-class women to country songwriting — and taught those who came after her to speak their minds, too –
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/04/
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/oct/04/
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Paul Karl Siebel USA 1937-2022
Paul Siebel in performance. “He was a great singer and songwriter,” a colleague said. “But he had the worst stage fright of anyone I ever met.”
Photograph: GAB Archive/Redferns via Getty Images
Paul Siebel, Singer Whose Career Was Notable but Brief, Dies at 84 He arrived on the Greenwich Village folk scene in the mid-1960s and drew comparisons to Dylan. But he left the music business not long after. NYT April 16, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/
folk singer and songwriter who drew comparisons to Bob Dylan in the 1960s and ’70s but dropped out of the music business, hindered by stage fright and disappointed by the lack of attention his work received
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/
Ian Dawson Tyson Canada 1933-2022
A rancher for most of his life, he began his music career as half of the folk-era duo Ian and Sylvia and was also celebrated for his commitment to the culture of Canada’s ranch country.
Before Canadian musicians like Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell or Leonard Cohen, there was Ian Tyson.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/31/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/
Mary Noel McCaslin USA 1946-2022
folk singer who lamented the lost Old West
A songwriter in her own right, she was known for renditions of pop and rock songs, “Pinball Wizard” among them, that made them sound like mountain ballads.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/
Nanci Caroline Griffith USA 1953-2021
Grammy-winning singer and songwriter who kept one foot in folk and the other in country and was blessed with a soaring voice equally at home in both genres
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While Ms. Griffith often wrote political and confessional material, her best-loved songs were closely observed tales of small-town life, sometimes with painful details in the lyrics, but typically sung with a deceptive prettiness.
Her song “Love at the Five and Dime,” for example, tracks a couple’s romance from its teenage origins when “Rita was 16 years/ Hazel eyes and chestnut hair/ She made the Woolworth counter shine” through old age, when “Eddie traveled with the barroom bands/ till arthritis took his hands/ Now he sells insurance on the side.”
The song was a country hit in 1986 — but for Kathy Mattea, not for Ms. Griffith.
Similarly, while Ms. Griffith was the first person to record “From a Distance,” written by Julie Gold, the song was later a smash hit for Bette Midler.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/
David Anthony Rice / Tony Rice USA 1951-2020
nimble king of flatpicking (who) had enormous influence on a host of prominent musicians.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/29/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/27/
Kenny Rogers USA 1938-2020
https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2020/mar/21/
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/21/
Charley Pride USA 1934-2020
Country music’s first Black superstar
He cemented his place in the country pantheon in the 1970s with hits including “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” and “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/16/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/
Charles Edward Daniels USA 1936-2020
singer, songwriter, bandleader and player of many instruments
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Charlie Daniels was born Oct. 28, 1936 in Wilmington, North Carolina.
He started out playing bluegrass locally with the Misty Mountain Boys before moving to Nashville in 1967.
He was already becoming known as a songwriter as well; he co-wrote an Elvis Presley song, "It Hurts Me," in 1964.
By the late 1960s, he was already becoming an important link between country music and artists outside the country and Southern-rock spheres.
He played guitar and bass guitar on Bob Dylan's 1969 project Nashville Skyline, and later worked with Leonard Cohen, George Harrison and others.
He and his band also appeared in the 1980 film Urban Cowboy.
As the bandleader of the Charlie Daniels Band, he began hosting the Volunteer Jam in 1974 in Nashville.
Over the years, this wide-ranging festival featured artists like John Prine, Lynyrd Skynyrd, James Brown, Carl Perkins, Emmylou Harris and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/06/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/07/
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/06/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/
Bob Shane USA 1934-2020
(born Robert Castle Schoen)
Bob Shane (was) the last surviving original member of the Kingston Trio, whose smooth close harmonies helped transform folk music from a dusty niche genre into a dominant brand of pop music in the 1950s and ’60s
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Mr. Shane, whose whiskey baritone was the group’s most identifiable voice on hits like “Tom Dooley” and “Scotch and Soda,” sang lead on more than 80 percent of the Kingston Trio’s songs.
He didn’t just outlast the other original members, Dave Guard, who died in 1991, and Nick Reynolds, who died in 2008;
he also eventually took ownership of the group’s name and devoted his life to various incarnations of the trio, from its founding in 1957 to 2004, when a heart attack forced him to stop touring.
Along the way, the trio spearheaded a reinvention of folk as a youthful mass-media phenomenon;
at its peak, in 1959, the group put four albums in the Top 10 at the same time.
Touring into the 21st century, the Kingston Trio remained a nostalgic presence for its fans, drawing many to its annual Trio Fantasy Camp in Scottsdale, Ariz.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/
Anne Leonard Bredon / Anne Johannsen USA 1930-2019 (born Anne Loeb)
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Donald Ray Fritts USA 1942-2019
songwriter, singer and piano player who helped shape both the soul music made in Muscle Shoals, Ala., in the 1960s and the outlaw country sensibility that bucked Nashville norms in the 1970s
(...) to enthusiasts of American roots music than to the general public — and probably better known as the pianist in Kris Kristofferson’s band than as a performer in his own right — Mr. Fritts was a creative force in Southern popular music for more than two decades.
As part of a close circle of songwriters working in Northern Alabama in the ’60s, he wrote or co-wrote signature songs for the likes of the soul singer Arthur Alexander (“Rainbow Road,” with Dan Penn) and the Box Tops (“Choo Choo Train,” with Eddie Hinton). “Choo Choo Train” is also featured on the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino’s latest movie, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/
John Cohen USA 1932-2019
founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, the New York-based string band at the forefront of the old-time music revival of the 1950s and ’60s
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Although best known as a performer, Mr. Cohen was also an accomplished photographer, filmmaker and musicologist.
But virtually all his artistic pursuits were centered on a single goal:
revitalizing the traditional music of the rural American South and building a movement around it.
Established in 1958, the Ramblers consisted of Mr. Cohen on banjo, guitar and vocals;
the folklorist Mike Seeger, also on vocals, as well as fiddle and other instruments;
and Tom Paley, who left the trio in 1962, on banjo, guitar and vocals.
Together the three men introduced a generation of young urbanites to the work of Depression-era rural performers like Dock Boggs, Elizabeth Cotten and Blind Alfred Reed.
(Tracy Schwarz, Mr. Paley’s replacement, played fiddle and guitar and sang with the group from 1962 until the early 1970s.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/14/
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Bonnie Guitar USA 1923-2019
(born Bonnie Buckingham)
Bonnie Guitar (...) had hit records as a country singer and guitarist, but (her) biggest achievement may have been her work as a businesswoman in the male-dominated music industry
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/
Glen Travis Campbell USA 1936-2017
Glen Travis Campbell was born on April 22, 1936, about 80 miles southwest of Little Rock, Ark., between Billstown and Delight, where his father sharecropped 120 acres of cotton.
He was the seventh son in a family of eight boys and four girls.
When he was 4, his father ordered him a three-quarter-size guitar for $5 from Sears, Roebuck.
He was performing on local radio stations by the time he was 6.
Picking up music from the radio and his church’s gospel hymns, he “got tired of looking a mule in the butt,” as Mr. Campbell put it in an interview with The New York Times in 1968.
He quit school at 14 and went to Albuquerque, where his father’s brother-in-law, Dick Bills, had a band and was appearing on both radio and television.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/
https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2017/08/08/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/
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Rosalie Sorrels USA 1933-2017
(born Rosalie Ann Stringfellow)
singer and storyteller who drew on her own tempestuous life in songs of struggle and heartache that inspired a generation of rising folk musicians in the 1980s
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Ms. Sorrels (pronounced sore-ELS) first came to widespread attention at the 1966 Newport Folk Festival, where she performed traditional songs from Idaho, her native state, and Utah, where she lived with her family.
She soon began writing her own material, about life on the road, her marital difficulties and the challenges of raising children.
She then broadened her scope to include social issues like prison reform, suicide prevention and women’s rights.
As a singer, Ms. Sorrels was influenced by Billie Holiday, and her jazz-inflected phrasings often perplexed her accompanists.
But she delivered her songs with a throbbing intensity that came straight from the folk tradition.
The critic John Rockwell, describing her voice in The New York Times in 1979, wrote, “It’s full and rich, with a plaintive vibrato that thins out delicately on top, unless she’s pushing for volume, in which case it becomes — if such a thing is possible — an evocative, stirring bray.”
Ms. Sorrels developed a storytelling approach, surrounding her songs with tales of her childhood, her parents and grandparents, and the early settlers of the West.
The effect could be incantatory.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/06/15/
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Claude Putman Jr. USA 1930-2016
songwriter whose teary ballad with a twist ending, “The Green, Green Grass of Home,” became a worldwide hit for Tom Jones in 1967, and whose long string of country classics included “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” for Tammy Wynette and “He Stopped Loving Her Today” for George Jones
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Mr. Putman turned out hundreds of songs, many of them country chart-toppers, after moving to Nashville and signing with Tree Publishing in the early 1960s.
He was renowned as a song doctor who could transform a promising tune into a sure thing, and although he often wrote solo, many of his greatest hits were collaborative efforts. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/arts/music/curly-putnam-died.html
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Glenn Robertson Yarbrough USA 1930-2016
folk singer who at midcentury found fame and fortune with the popular trio the Limeliters but who walked away from it all for a life at sea
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Founded in 1959, the Limeliters — comprising Mr. Yarbrough on vocals and guitar, Alex Hassilev on vocals and banjo and Lou Gottlieb on vocals and bass — was a contemporary folk group in the tradition of the Kingston Trio.
Known for their burnished tight harmonies, sophisticated if nontraditional arrangements and witty onstage banter, the Limeliters were wildly successful.
Amid the folk revival of the 1960s, they appeared often on television and in live performance, sold records by the hundreds of thousands and became millionaires in the bargain.
By all critical accounts, Mr. Yarbrough’s silvery lyric tenor — a voice whose lightness belied his stocky appearance — was the group’s acoustic linchpin, soaring memorably in traditional tunes including “John Henry” and contemporary numbers like “Charlie, the Midnight Marauder,” about a hapless suburbanite who one night mistakenly enters the wrong house.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/
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Ralph Edmond Stanley USA 1927-2016
singer, banjo player and guardian of unvarnished mountain music who was also a pivotal figure in the recent revival of interest in bluegrass
(...) as one of the founding fathers of bluegrass, Mr. Stanley said on numerous occasions that he did not believe his music was representative of the genre.
“Old-time mountain style, that’s what I like to call it,” he explained in a 2001 interview with the online music magazine SonicNet.
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He grew up listening to the music of the Carter Family and singing in the ardent, unaccompanied style of the Primitive Baptist Church.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/
Guy Charles Clark USA 1941-2016
Merle Ronald Haggard USA 1937-2016
Bonnie Lou USA 1924-2015
born Mary Joan Kath
singer who achieved national stardom in the 1950s by recording hit country and rockabilly records and performing on television and radio
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/
Lynn Rene Anderson USA 1947-2015
Lynn Anderson (...) skyrocketed to country music stardom in 1970 singing her signature song, “(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden”
(...)
“Rose Garden,” written by Joe South, became a crossover hit, soaring to the top of both the country and pop charts and earning Ms. Anderson a Grammy in 1971.
An album of the same title was the top-selling one by a female country artist from 1971 to 1997.
Ms. Anderson attributed the song’s popularity to its emotional tug as the nation was trying to recover from the war in Vietnam.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/01/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/01/
James Edward Brown USA 1934-2015
Grand Ole Opry star whose smooth, sweet baritone made him a chart-topper as a solo act, in duets with Helen Cornelius and as one third of the close-harmony group the Browns, whose 1959 hit “The Three Bells” sold more than a million records
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/
Jean Ruth Ritchie USA 1922-2015
Jean Ritchie (...) brought hundreds of traditional songs from her native Appalachia to a wide audience — singing of faith and unfaithfulness, murder and revenge, love unrequited and love lost — and in the process helped ignite the folk song revival of the mid-20th century
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/
John Paul Gimble USA 1926-2015
virtuoso Texas fiddler who played with a roster of country superstars including Bob Wills, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and George Strait
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/
Guy Hughes Carawan Jr. USA 1927-2015
Benjamin Franklin Logan Jr. USA 1927-2015
On weekdays, Benjamin F. Logan worked as a mathematician and electrical engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey.
On nights and weekends, he donned a 10-gallon hat and took to the stage as a pre-eminent bluegrass fiddler.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/
James Cecil Dickens USA 1920-2014
Little Jimmy Dickens, the diminutive but big-voiced country singer best known for his novelty recordings and his self-deprecating sense of humor
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/03/nyregion/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/03/nyregion/
George Hamilton IV USA 1937-2014
clean-cut country singer whose string of wholesome hits in the 1960s, including “Abilene” and “Before This Day Ends,” helped him become an enduring draw at the Grand Ole Opry and on concert stages around the world
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/
Jean Redpath UK 1937-2014
esteemed Scottish folk singer whose arresting repertoire of ancient ballads, Robert Burns poems and contemporary tunes helped energize a genre she described as a “brew of pure flavor and pure emotion”
(...)
Ms. Redpath, who recorded some 40 albums, combined voluminous historical knowledge, a winning stage presence and a voice that could be both bright and melancholy to become perhaps the most prominent Scottish folk singer of the postwar era.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/
Noble Ray Price 1926-2013
Ray Price (...) was at the forefront of two revolutions in country music as one of its finest ballad singers and biggest hit makers http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/arts/music/ray-price-country-singer-dies-at-87.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
The Highwaymen early 1960s
David Louis Fisher 1940-2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/
Emmylou Harris USA
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
George Glenn Jones 1931-2013
definitive country singer of the last half-century, whose songs about heartbreak and hard drinking echoed his own turbulent life
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/may/03/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/apr/26/
Richard Pierce Havens 1941-2013
Mr. Havens embodied the spirit of the ’60s — espousing peace and love, hanging out in Greenwich Village and playing gigs from the Isle of Wight to the Fillmore (both East and West) to Carnegie Hall.
He surfaced only in the mid-1960s, but before the end of the decade many rock musicians were citing him as an influence.
His rendition of “Handsome Johnny” became an anti-Vietnam War anthem. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/arts/music/richie-havens-guitarist-and-singer-dies-at-72.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/apr/23/
Jason Andrew Molina 1973-2013
Before bearded banjo bands like Mumford & Sons and the Avett Brothers rode a folk-rock revival to mainstream success, Mr. Molina was constructing spare songs about 19th-century heartbreak and the despair of blue-collar workers, about loneliness and bad weather and scarred landscapes in a fading Midwest.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/
Douglas Dillard 1937-2012
banjo virtuoso who began the 1960s by helping to introduce a generation of listeners to bluegrass and ended the decade as an early advocate of country-rock http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/28/arts/music/doug-dillard-banjo-virtuoso-dies-at-75.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/28/
Charles Everett Lilly 1924-2012
Everett Lilly (...) was largely credited, along with his brother Burt and their band mates Don Stover and Tex Logan, with introducing bluegrass music to New England http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/arts/music/everett-lilly-bluegrass-musician-dies-at-87.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/arts/music/
Joseph Aquilla Thompson 1918-2012
Joseph Thompson is credited with helping to keep alive an African-American musical tradition — the black string band — that predates the blues and influenced country music and bluegrass.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/
Richard Lawrence Kniss 1937-2012
self-taught musician who for more than 40 years played stand-up bass behind Peter, Paul and Mary, becoming a veritable fourth member of the folk-singing trio
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/
Elizabeth Jane Haaby / Liz Anderson USA 1927 or 1930-2011
Liz Anderson wrote breakthrough hits for Merle Haggard and other country singers and recorded songs of her own about faithless men and beleaguered women
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/
Johnnie Robert Wright USA 1914-2011
singer and bandleader who was among the first country musicians to use Latin rhythms and who managed the singing career of his wife, Kitty Wells
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/
Wilma Leigh Leary USA 1921-2011
perennial favorite with the Grand Ole Opry and a member, with her husband, Stoney, of a popular tradition-steeped country singing duo
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/
The Watersons UK
Norma Waterson, second from left, with other members of the folk group the Watersons in the early 1970s.
From left, Martin Carthy, her husband; Lal Waterson, her sister; and Mike Waterson, her brother.
Photograph: Keith Morris Redferns, via Getty Images
Norma Waterson, a Key Figure in Britain’s Folk Revival, Dies at 82 With her familial singing group, the Watersons, and later as a solo performer, she helped revitalize traditional music from the north of England. NYT Feb. 8, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/
Norma Waterson, left, with her sister, Lal, in 1964.
Photograph: Brian Shuel Redferns
G Sat 10 Dec 2022 07.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/10/
Norma Waterson 1939-2022
With her familial singing group, the Watersons, and later as a solo performer, she helped revitalize traditional music from the north of England.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/10/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/
The Watersons
Michael Waterson 1941-2011
founding member of the Watersons, the self-taught singing group that was long considered the royal family of British folk music
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/
Hazel Jane Dickens USA 1935-2011
clarion-voiced advocate for coal miners and working people and a pioneer among women in bluegrass music http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/arts/music/hazel-dickens-bluegrass-singer-dies-at-75.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/
Gilbert Lee Robbins USA 1931-2011
singer, guitarist and songwriter with the folk group the Highwaymen and a fixture on the folk-music scene http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/arts/music/10robbins.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/
Ralph Eugene Mooney 1928-2011
Ralph Mooney played pedal steel guitar on hit recordings by Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings and was a writer of “Crazy Arms,” one of the most enduring shuffles in country music
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/
Ferlin Husky 1925-2011
smooth-voiced singer whose 1956 hit “Gone” became the first country single of the Nashville Sound era to cross over to the pop Top 10 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/arts/music/ferlin-husky-country-singer-dies-at-85.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/
Charlie Elzer Loudermilk 1927-2011
member of one of the pre-eminent brother acts in country music and an inspiration to several generations of rock musicians http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/arts/music/27louvin.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/
Jimmy Ray Dean USA 1928-2010
country singer and television-show host whose good looks, folksy integrity and aw-shucks Texas charm served him especially well when he went into the sausage business and became his own pitchman http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/arts/15dean.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/
Peter, Paul and Mary
Mary Travers USA 1936-2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/sep/17/
Davey (Davy) Graham UK 1940-2008
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/dec/17/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/dec/16/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2008/dec/16/
John Martyn UK 1948-2009
born as Iain David McGeachy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/jan/30/john-martyn-music
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jan/30/john-martyn-obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jan/29/john-martyn-dies
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2009/jan/29/
Odetta Holmes Felious USA 1930-2008
singer and actor
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/arts/music/03odetta.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/dec/04/odetta-film-folk-music-obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/05/odetta-singer-civil-rights-activist
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/dec/04/folk-jazz
Arthur Roy 'Artie' Traum USA 1943-2008
guitarist, singer-songwriter and musical educationist
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/jul/25/
He was one of the great singer-songwriters of the 60s folk scene, more highly regarded by some than Paul Simon.
But he only recorded one album – and died in obscurity, penniless and homeless http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/09/jackson-c-frank-tragic-tale-forgotten-60s-legend
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/09/
Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley USA 1966-1997
raised as Scott "Scottie" Moorhead
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
Karen J. Dalton USA 1937-1993
(born Jean Karen Cariker)
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/04/
Tim Buckley USA 1947-1975
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/04/
Connie Converse USA
1924 - disappeared August 1974
Connie Converse, photographed in New York City in June, 1958.
Credit: The Musick Group, Heroic Cities LLC
The mysterious story of Connie Converse, the singer-songwriter who vanished NPR August 6, 2023 8:06 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/06/
Connie Converse was a pioneer of what’s become known as the singer-songwriter era, making music in the predawn of a movement that had its roots in the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s.
But her songs, created a decade earlier, arrived just a moment too soon.
They didn’t catch on.
And by the time the sun had come up in the form of a young Bob Dylan, she was already gone.
Not simply retired.
She had vanished from New York City, as she eventually would from the world, along with her music and legacy.
It wasn’t until 2004, when an N.Y.U. student heard a 1954 bootleg recording of Ms. Converse on WNYC, that her music started to get any of the attention and respect that had evaded her some 50 years before.
The student, Dan Dzula, and his friend, David Herman, were spellbound by what they heard.
They dug up more archival recordings, and assembled the 2009 album, “How Sad, How Lovely,” a compilation of songs that sound as though they could have been written today.
It has been streamed over 16 million times on Spotify.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/06/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/
Buffalo Springfield Canada, USA 1966 to 1968
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/20/
The Mamas and the Papas USA
Denny Doherty Canada 1940-2007
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Hiram King "Hank" Williams USA 1923-1953
The Seekers Australia
formed in Melbourne in 1962
https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2022/aug/08/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/07/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/06/
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