Paul Clayton And The Folksong Revival

Informationen zum Autor Bob Coltman is a traditional folksinger, writer, and composer of several folk standards, and has published articles in Old Time Music and JEMFQ. He is a contributor to Exploring Roots Music: Twenty Years of the JEMF Quarterly (Porterfield, ed., Scarecrow Press, 2004). Klappentext Paul Clayton and the Folksong Revival is the first biography of the folk singer and song collector Paul Clayton (1931-1967). Preeminently a scholar-balladeer, Clayton is credited with the Top-Ten hit "Gotta Travel On" and single-handedly brought hundreds of obscure folksongs to light for the mid-century radio and recording market. He influenced listeners and friends from Dave Van Ronk to Bob Dylan, who considered Clayton a mentor, "mindguard," and well of folksong.

Product details

• Authors: Bob Coltman
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.09.2008
• EAN: 9780810861329
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-6132-9
• No. of pages: 297
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: American Folk Music and Folk M; American Folk Music and Musicians Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous