Apparently the chronological thing is over. I just can't find 9 or 10 songs from the 90s that I like enough to post for your entertainment. Instead we're just going to free form it, with today's group of tunes being folk related, which includes blues and folk-rock. So here we go! Turn the hi-fi high and the lights down low! 'Cause here we go with the folk music show!
Stop me if you've heard this story. I wasn't sure, when I was a sophomore in high school, where I wanted to go to college. I don't know if I was really thinking too much about it. One day my older cousin was visiting when I excitedly played the new John Hammond album for him. My Cuz said "I know John. I went to school with him." It turned out that the school was Antioch College and from that day I knew that's where I wanted to go.
This is a great singalong song (if I've got the right video queued up here!). Joan Baez does this one with The Greenbriar Boys. I believe I saw them on a 60s sitcom....have to check that out.
Here's one from my record collection. Huddie Ledbetter was born in 1888, which is wild to me, because it shows how connected everything is. His music is still alive today. We've got recordings and he still sounds pretty fresh. Now when you consider that it's 122 years since his birth, that's pretty remarkable.
A well-loved, tragic figure, here's more Tim Hardin. For those youngsters in our audience, I saw him twice, both times he was outrageously drunk or something. An Oregon lad, he OD'ed at the age of 38.
Congrats to The Hollies! They were inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame last night! Hooray! Here they are doing some sort of folk/spiritual/rock tune.
And speaking of folk rock, here's my favorite tune from the Byrds off of their debut album, sung by Gene Clark with the usual McGuinn and Crosby harmonies.
The original "You Were On My Mind", from the Canadian duo, Ian and Sylvia. It has more of an at-home feel, don't you think? I mean, compared to the We Five version. By the way, that We Five single must have freaked that group out. If you've ever heard the rest of what they did it was folk with a jazz mix. Somebody at the record company must have made them do the rocking version of this song.
The Zombies are doing a strange number here, one of their mood numbers. I especially love the odd organ solo, by Rod Argent.
These fellows are so comforting. They look like you wish they'd be your college roommates or next door neighbors or something.
And finally, for this week, The Beach Boys do this touching song. Eddie Fisher had a popular version of this but I'm fairly sure the Beach Boys preferred Vince Martin and The Tarriers' original, which has guitar and bongos, where Fisher's is an overblown gasbaggy pomposity.
