Dave Van Ronk

Dave Van Ronk (June 30th 1936 - February 10th 2002) is a singer of Blues and American Folk. It prevailed especially with the Greenwich Village. It was called the mayor of MacDougal Street .

Biography

It was born with Brooklyn with New York. He moves in the Queens in 1951 and follows his study to the Richmond Hill High School . He starts to play in a " barbershop quartet" ( quartet of hairdressing salon ) in 1949 but it leaves the school prematurely, and spends the following years to grind in Manhattan, with two escapades in the merchant navy.

It gives its first professional concerts in groups of traditional Jazz in the area of New York. Later he will write We wanted to play of the traditional jazz in the possible bad manners, and arrived there we! . The jazz revival did not go so much, and Dave launches out in the traditional Blues which it had given up a few years before whereas he listened to some artists like Furry Lewis or the Mississippi John Hurt. It is not the first white musician to be interested in the blues Afro-American, but he is noticed by his interpretations given in the original context.

One notices it by his imposing stature and his charisma indicating a gentihomme cultivated with the multiple talents. It is interested in all: the Kitchen, the Science fiction, world history and the policy. In the Years 1960, it supports the causes of the extreme-left, and was one of the members of the Libertarian League . It takes share rather, by chance, with famous the riots of Stonewall (in June 1969) where it is stopped, forced and briefly imprisoned. In 1974, it occurs, with its viel friendly Bob Dylan in a concert with the profit of the Chilean refugees.

In 2000, he plays Blind Willie' S.A. Atlanta with a very conspicuous shirt hawaÏenne, while speaking about his return to Greenwich Village. He gives his last concert some month before his death.

He dies before to have finished writing his memories, which were finished by his/her collaborator Elijah Wald, and were published in 2005 pennies the title of The Mayor Of MacDougal Street (the mayor of MacDougal Street). In 2004, a piece of the Sheridan Public garden with the angle of Barrow Street and Washington Place were famous Dave Van Ronk Stree T in its honor.

Influence

One describes it like an incomparable disrespectful guitarist and an interpreter of the blues and black folk, as well as an incredibly precise improviser.

Dave Van Ronk is perhaps low esteem as guitarist of blues and folk.

He was a friend of Bob Dylan and he taught the guitar to him during many years.

The character

Dave Van Ronk forever learned how to lead a car, which is nevertheless impressive for American! He used the train, the buses, like, when he on of it the occasion, the services of his boyfriend of the moment or a young musician. It a long time refused to take the plane, to even leave Greenwich Village; it nevertheless made a round in Europe in the Années 1980. His/her favorite companion was a stoneware pitcher of Tullamore Dew (Whiskey Irish).

Discography

Orange The Blossom Jug Five: Skiffle in Stereophony (1958)
Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues And has Negro spiritual (1959)
Van Ronk Sings (vol. 2) (1961)
Dave Van Ronk, Folksinger (1963)
Dave Van Ronk And The Red Onion Jazz Band: In The Tradition (1964)
Inside Dave Van Ronk (1964)
Just Dave Van Ronk (1964)
Dave Van Ronk And The Ragtime Jug Stompers (1964)
No Dirty Names (1966)
Dave Van Ronk And The Hudson Dusters (1968)
Van Ronk (1971)
Van Ronk (1972)
Songs For Ageing Children (1973)
Sunday Street (1976)
Somebody Else, Not Me (1980)
Your BASIC Dave Van Ronk (1982)
St James Infirmary (1983)
Dave Van Ronk In Rome (1983)
Going Back To Brooklyn (1985)
Hesitation Blues (1988)
Frankie Armstrong & Dave Van Ronk: Let No One Deceive You: Songs off Bertolt Brecht (1990)
Hummin' To Myself - Dave Van Ronk Sings Year American Songbook (1990)
The Folkways Years, 1959 - 1961 (1991)
has Chrestomathy (1992)
To All My Friends In Far-Flung Places (1994)
from… another time & places (1995)
Dave Van Ronk Live At Sir George Williams University (1997)
Dave Van Ronk: Sweet & Lowdown (2001)
The Two Sides Off Dave Van Ronk (2002)
Dave Van Ronk: … and the chock side bended and the story ended… (2004)

Dave Van Ronk: The Mayor off MacDougal Street, Rarities 1957-1969 (2005)

External bonds

The Mayor off MacDougal Street Memorial of the folk revival Dave Van Ronk.
Site of Dave Van Ronk nonofficial.
illustrated Discography of Dave Van Ronk
inaugural ceremony of the '' Dave Van Ronk Street ''

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