MUSIC MAKER RELIEF FOUNDATION FOCUSES ON DEEP SOUTH FOLK MUSICIANS OVER THE AGE OF 55

MUSIC MAKER RELIEF ORG

Official Statement : "Music Maker Relief Foundation preserves and promotes the musical traditions of the American South. Since 1994 we have partnered with traditional artists over 55 years old who survive on a yearly income of less than $18,000, sustaining their day-to-day needs while building their careers. Through Music Maker, our rich heritage of folk music will not be lost with the passing of time.

(465) JOAN BAEZ : SHE OWNED THE LABEL PROTEST SINGER

BBC - Joan invading Britain.  When Less is More.  Simply beautiful voice, and a strong connection to  the Americanfolk and country music. 

Joan Baez and Bob Dylan worked together and were involved very early on.  She says she introduced him to audiences and he moved on and didn't look back of return the favor.  Yet they both stayed true to themselves.

JOAN BAEZ OFFICIAL!  There's an excellent biography here that explains the social causes Joan has backed through many years, a discography, and so much else.

(464) BOB DYLAN OFFICIALLY GENIUS

BOB DYLAN OFFICIAL SITE   Still touring, but you knew that!

Probably the most prolific songwriter of the 21st century, Bob Dylan is officially a genius - a creative genius.  Many of his songs stand as poetry without the music.  He's literary.

I remember sitting around with a group of songwriters talking about Bob.  The question was "How does he do it?" The answer seemed to be that Bob used newspapers - stories and headlines - as inspiration.  He was living many lives vicariously through the news.

Bob seemed to be cagey - sometimes inarticulate - on some interviews.  He would protest being a protest singer. He would put on people he thought were putting him on.  He didn't want to be stereotyped in terms of what sort of music he was writing and singing and was annoyed to be portrayed as a "jingle jangle man."  He was not so mellow.  And private; you heard very little about the true loves of his, had no idea.

Maybe he just didn't want to close any doors on what he would write about or which direction he would go.  Still today there is understood to be a Bob Dylan sound, and it has a lot to do with his distinctive voice, which is not the best voice in the music business.  No three octave range or high notes for Bob but some artists with that range have covered his songs and made them their own.

One of the most successful songwriters financially, he made millions early and could have retired and been OK, say after his motorcycle accident.  He went off somewhere and disappeared.  Ex-Beatle George Harrison pulled him out of a funk to be on stage in his Concert for Bangladesh in 1971, and they were lifelong friends who respected each other and recorded and played together in The Traveling Willburys.

FOLK SINGER BOB DYLAN INVADES BRITAIN AND GOES ELECTRIC

Bob Dylan went to England as an established "American Folk Singer" and went Electric and fans protested. Bob was protesting being called a "Protest Singer."

(460) FOLK ROCK : A SYNERGY OF FOLK MUSIC and COUNTRY and ROCK AND ROLL

Country music, Folk music, Rock Music... In the mid 1960's music by the Turtles and the Byrds was recognized as something called FOLK ROCK.  Some say Bob Dylan's song "Mr. Tambourine Man," was the song that began the Folk Rock "revolution."

Let's go to the Encyclopedia Brittanica, where we got our definition for HARMONY, and see how the term is officially explained:

BRITANNICA : FOLK ROCK Link! 

The definition begins :  "As the American folk music revival gathered momentum in the 1950s and ’60s, it was inevitable that a high-minded movement that prided itself on the purity of its acoustic instrumentation and its separation from the commercial pop mainstream would be overtaken and transformed by pop music’s rapidly evolving technology. Rock music also was transformed by its intersection with folk. Although rock previously had been perceived and created almost exclusively as entertainment, it now began to take on folk music’s self-conscious seriousness of intent...

MR TAMBOURINE MAN WRITTEN BY SINGER-SONGWRITER BOB DYLAN : CLASSIC COVER TUNE

 : THE BYRDS REMASTERED

THE SONGWRITER BOB DYLAN : AT ALBERT HALL 

 or maybe
JUDY COLLINS:

PETE SEEGER : A SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS SONGWRITER

Linking to the SONGWRITER'S HALL OF FAME - PETE SEEGER PAGE PETE SEEGER - SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME right here!

"In 1949, he joined with Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman to form The Weavers, one of the most successful and influential folk music groups ever... Pete Seeger has always been a socially conscious songwriter. Inspired by the movement, Seeger wrote “We Shall Overcome”, based on an old spiritual. The song quickly became the anthem of the movement. Since the end of the 1960s, Seeger has been increasingly involved in the environment movement, another source of inspiration... Among some of Seeger’s other hit songs are "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" (written with The Weavers), "Wimoweh" (written with The Weavers and based on the African song “Mbube”, by Soloman Linda), and "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season"), a number one hit for The Byrds in 1965."

(454) PETER PAUL AND MARY : FOLK SINGERS CIRCA '66

Peter Yarrow, Noel (Paul) Stookey and Mary Travers = PETER, PAUL and MARY.

By 1966 they were considered to be "Folk singers."

Other singers, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, were also considered Folk singers.

Folk, not Country. Folk not Pop. Folk not Rock and Roll. Linking to their offical site which has a jukebox!

See archived post #239 about their debut or search within this Google Blogger for our Memorial to Mary .

PETER PAUL AND MARY OFFICIAL SITE  link here!  Check the JUKEBOX!