dylan
sept. 26, pbs
ive seen some coming attractions for this and the bob interviews look incredible. im really looking forward to this.
its tonight lets not miss it! im so excited...
replays on saturday or whenever you have tivo.
pretty impressed so far. will take notes on saturdays re-viewing. but for now want to look into that wild older folkie jamin with the zither (w/ three names) and over the top song styling doing that traditional number. also him sitting at the hammond organ making it squonk like a harmonica on "blowing in the wind"? in a live performance. also the over lay of non ownership of the songs as the scene existed at the time. the dave van ronk episode over house of the rising sun. and all the other examples the director made sure to use. that and the directors use of found footage. some footage paralled 1965 pennebaker documentary. then contrast that with the ownership-nes of columbia and grossman that meant being big time, at the top of the music game.
3 name guy = john jacob niles / alex r u familiar ?
that warhol screen test looked like a silk screen painting. same head shot contrasty exposure and cropping.
"play it loud"
Got it on DVD, fooking awesome.
Re: John Jacob Niles
The thing about folk revivalism, the revival’s been going on almost as long as the original. Niles retained something turn of the century, a pre-WWI consciousness, Romantic, nostalgic and academic compared to the activist folk of Guthrie et al. A number of his songs have entered the standard folkie repertoire, but I’d never actually heard him before; I don’t think his recordings were widely available in the 60s, though his name was well known, and his style still echoed in Joan Baez’s early renditions of the traditional ballads. The clip gave some impression of what a character he was. There was even a hint of his pop contemporary, Rudy Vallee, in the pre-microphone vocal approach. He seems affected to us today, and he was criticized by purists for “improving” on songs he collected, but when considered in the larger context of “folk” music made by folks who ain’t exactly folk, he seems about as authentic as the next.
this show is on again tonight at 9 - WNJN newark new jersey pbs - not a pledgedrive
ask liam clancy - he answers (in between pints)
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sept. 26, pbs
- linda 9-21-2005 11:18 pm
ive seen some coming attractions for this and the bob interviews look incredible. im really looking forward to this.
- bill 9-22-2005 2:27 am [add a comment]
its tonight lets not miss it! im so excited...
- bill 9-27-2005 3:00 am [add a comment]
replays on saturday or whenever you have tivo.
- dave 9-27-2005 3:18 am [add a comment]
pretty impressed so far. will take notes on saturdays re-viewing. but for now want to look into that wild older folkie jamin with the zither (w/ three names) and over the top song styling doing that traditional number. also him sitting at the hammond organ making it squonk like a harmonica on "blowing in the wind"? in a live performance. also the over lay of non ownership of the songs as the scene existed at the time. the dave van ronk episode over house of the rising sun. and all the other examples the director made sure to use. that and the directors use of found footage. some footage paralled 1965 pennebaker documentary. then contrast that with the ownership-nes of columbia and grossman that meant being big time, at the top of the music game.
- bill 9-27-2005 3:58 pm [add a comment]
3 name guy = john jacob niles / alex r u familiar ?
- bill 9-27-2005 9:54 pm [add a comment]
that warhol screen test looked like a silk screen painting. same head shot contrasty exposure and cropping.
- bill 9-28-2005 5:51 am [add a comment]
"play it loud"
- bill 9-28-2005 6:31 am [add a comment]
Got it on DVD, fooking awesome.
- jimlouis 9-28-2005 8:29 pm [add a comment]
Re: John Jacob Niles
The thing about folk revivalism, the revival’s been going on almost as long as the original. Niles retained something turn of the century, a pre-WWI consciousness, Romantic, nostalgic and academic compared to the activist folk of Guthrie et al. A number of his songs have entered the standard folkie repertoire, but I’d never actually heard him before; I don’t think his recordings were widely available in the 60s, though his name was well known, and his style still echoed in Joan Baez’s early renditions of the traditional ballads. The clip gave some impression of what a character he was. There was even a hint of his pop contemporary, Rudy Vallee, in the pre-microphone vocal approach. He seems affected to us today, and he was criticized by purists for “improving” on songs he collected, but when considered in the larger context of “folk” music made by folks who ain’t exactly folk, he seems about as authentic as the next.
- alex 9-30-2005 5:22 am [add a comment]
this show is on again tonight at 9 - WNJN newark new jersey pbs - not a pledgedrive
- bill 10-09-2005 3:40 am [add a comment]
ask liam clancy - he answers (in between pints)
- bill 10-12-2005 4:04 pm [add a comment]