Mimi Fariña: The reluctant folk icon
“When I danced or played music, I could be who I really was”.
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Big Sur Folk Festival: The 1960’s most anti-commercial event
“Turned the swimming pool into a stage and sang to everyone…”
‘Fog on the Tyne’: The folk song that resigned Bob Johnston to life in a castle
“It’s all mine, all mine”
“It’s been usurped”: The death of Greenwich Village through the eyes of Dave Van Ronk
‘The Mayor of MacDougal Street’ was no fan of visiting tourists.
‘Stagger Lee’: The Missouri pimp who inspired a Nick Cave classic
“He wore rat-drawn shoes and an old Stetson hat…”
Joni Mitchell didn’t want to be remembered for folk: “They want to pigeonhole me and they can’t”
Not wanting to be typecast.