{"id":729,"date":"2024-06-08T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/08\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-forgotten-and-unforgotten-folkies\/"},"modified":"2024-06-08T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T16:00:27","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-forgotten-and-unforgotten-folkies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/08\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-forgotten-and-unforgotten-folkies\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Forgotten and Unforgotten Folkies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-body\">\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Clayton_%28folksinger%29\" target=\"_self\">Paul Clayton<\/a>,&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=31ReloZU8qg\" target=\"_self\">Wild Mountain Thyme<\/a>.&#0160;&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=okOtgg0scPs\" target=\"_self\">Baez version<\/a>&#0160;from the &quot;Farewell, Angelina&quot; album.&#0160;&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=huD_rLm5rU8\" target=\"_self\">A snippet<\/a>&#0160;of the same song by Dylan and Baez with a beaming Albert Grossmann looking on.&#0160; And while we&#39;re at it, here is Joan with&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qcwP2ulxDdY\" target=\"_self\">Farewell, Angelina<\/a>.&#0160; Beautiful as it is, it doesn&#39;t touch the magical quality of&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1uB2uGYhN60\" target=\"_self\">Dylan&#39;s own version<\/a>&#0160;which is in a dimension by itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Paul Clayton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dTZ_hMiI8Tg\">Who&#39;s Gonna Buy You Ribbons (When I&#39;m Gone).<\/a>&#0160; Dylan borrowed a bit of the melody and some of the lyrics for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kv7K9ghgcgA\">Don&#39;t Think Twice, It&#39;s All Right<\/a>.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Dylan talks about Clayton in the former&#39;s&#0160;<em>Chronicles, Volume One<\/em>, Simon and Shuster, 2004, pp. 260-261.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Spoelstra\" target=\"_self\">Mark Spoelstra<\/a>&#0160;is also discussed by Dylan somewhere in&#0160;<em>Chronicles<\/em>.&#0160; While I flip through the pages, you enjoy&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sWyLnYGSKwc\" target=\"_self\">Sugar Babe, It&#39;s All Over Now<\/a>.&#0160; The title puts me in mind of Dylan&#39;s wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L4HW33SgZlM\">It&#39;s All Over Now, Baby Blue<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lLV-OcgdYuA\" target=\"_self\">Bonnie Raitt<\/a>&#0160;does a good job with it. Or perhaps you prefer the angel-throated&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6RrdtrT6ukM\" target=\"_self\">Joan Baez<\/a>. Comparing these two songs one sees why Spoelstra, competent as he is, is a forgotten folkie while Dylan is the &quot;bard of our generation&quot; to quote the ultra conservative Lawrence Auster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Ah yes, Spoelstra is mentioned on pp. 74-75.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">About&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karen_Dalton_%28entertainer%29\" target=\"_self\">Karen Dalton<\/a>, Dylan has this to say (<em>Chronicles<\/em>, p. 12):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">My favorite singer in the place [Cafe Wha?, Greenwich Village] was Karen Dalton. She was a tall white blues singer and guitar player, funky, lanky and sultry.&#0160; I&#39;d actually met her before, run across her the previous summer outside of Denver in a mountain pass town in a folk club.&#0160; Karen had a voice like Billie Holliday&#39;s and played the guitar like Jimmy Reed and went all the way with it.&#0160; I sang with her a couple of times.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb07e6ac33970d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Karen_dalton_newspaper\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb07e6ac33970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb07e6ac33970d-320wi\" title=\"Karen_dalton_newspaper\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hv8sMBQD0Eo\" target=\"_self\">It Hurts Me Too<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qp88D7DDqtk\" target=\"_self\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hTxE98tNxko\">In My Own Dream<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=er8PVjBB5xM\" target=\"_self\">Same Old Man<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-footer\">\n<p class=\"entry-footer-info\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Clayton,&#0160;Wild Mountain Thyme.&#0160;&#0160;Baez version&#0160;from the &quot;Farewell, Angelina&quot; album.&#0160;&#0160;A snippet&#0160;of the same song by Dylan and Baez with a beaming Albert Grossmann looking on.&#0160; And while we&#39;re at it, here is Joan with&#0160;Farewell, Angelina.&#0160; Beautiful as it is, it doesn&#39;t touch the magical quality of&#0160;Dylan&#39;s own version&#0160;which is in a dimension by itself. Paul Clayton, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/08\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-forgotten-and-unforgotten-folkies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday Night at the Oldies: Forgotten and Unforgotten Folkies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dylan","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}