“Lay Around Mama And Put A Good Buzz On”-A Jonathan Edwards Interview
A while back, a few years ago now, I did a series of CD reviews of male folk singers from back in the day, back in that early 1960s folk minute who were “not Bob Dylan.” Guys like Dave Von Ronk, Tom Rush, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton. The question I posed as part of the rationale for the series was why given their obvious talents as singers and song-writers did they not challenge Dylan for the king of folk “crown” and what happened to them later. We already know about Dylan and his never-ending tour so that is backdrop. (I also did a series for the distaff side, for the female folk-singer who were “not Joan Baez”). There were plenty of reasons why they did not challenge Dylan from burn-out to block as the folk minute faded.
The folksinger/songwriter, Jonathan Edwards, whose interview I am linking to here did not face that problem, see he started performing at the very tail end of folk minute and is still performing forty years later. What is interesting is what he tells the interviewer about his trials and tribulations. So listen up. Oh yeah, for the record, we heard him a few years ago at Club Passim in Cambridge and like he mentioned in the interview about the way he performs “he left nothing on the floor.” See and hear him when he comes around your way.
Click on link:
https://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/09/03/jonathan-edwards-tomorrows-child
A while back, a few years ago now, I did a series of CD reviews of male folk singers from back in the day, back in that early 1960s folk minute who were “not Bob Dylan.” Guys like Dave Von Ronk, Tom Rush, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton. The question I posed as part of the rationale for the series was why given their obvious talents as singers and song-writers did they not challenge Dylan for the king of folk “crown” and what happened to them later. We already know about Dylan and his never-ending tour so that is backdrop. (I also did a series for the distaff side, for the female folk-singer who were “not Joan Baez”). There were plenty of reasons why they did not challenge Dylan from burn-out to block as the folk minute faded.
The folksinger/songwriter, Jonathan Edwards, whose interview I am linking to here did not face that problem, see he started performing at the very tail end of folk minute and is still performing forty years later. What is interesting is what he tells the interviewer about his trials and tribulations. So listen up. Oh yeah, for the record, we heard him a few years ago at Club Passim in Cambridge and like he mentioned in the interview about the way he performs “he left nothing on the floor.” See and hear him when he comes around your way.
Click on link:
https://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/09/03/jonathan-edwards-tomorrows-child
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