Van Ronk

[JuanCarlosVejar]

Here is Van Ronk's version of HOFRS :

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxcLvfEJlsk&feature=related

 

 

Here He Explains how Bob Dylan got if off him ( the laugh at the end is priceless IMO):

 

 

 

I think his version of the song is the most "honest" and painful sounding

 

 

 

JC

[willysunday]

I agree with that! I think everyhting he did was "Honest" and whatever else he needed at the time. A treasure!

 

willy

[j45nick]

Van Ronk was a piece of work. We worked for a week at Gerde's Folk City in the early spring of 1971, I believe it was, and Van Ronk came in every night to hold court at the bar. He wouldn't even acknowledge my existence until I bought him a Heineken. But man, did that guy have the stories, and an encyclopedic knowledge of music.

 

One of the first songs I ever learned was his version of "Tell Old Bill", and the version of "House of the Rising Sun" that I still do is a hybrid of his and Dylan's versions.

 

He was the real thing.

[JuanCarlosVejar]

Van Ronk was a piece of work. We worked for a week at Gerde's Folk City in the early spring of 1971, I believe it was, and Van Ronk came in every night to hold court at the bar. He wouldn't even acknowledge my existence until I bought him a Heineken. But man, did that guy have the stories, and an encyclopedic knowledge of music.

 

One of the first songs I ever learned was his version of "Tell Old Bill", and the version of "House of the Rising Sun" that I still do is a hybrid of his and Dylan's versions.

 

He was the real thing.

 

Nick you should record a version of that for all of us to hear .

I'm sure you will do it justice.

 

 

JC

[Frosty]

Dave's playing and excellent guitaristic arrangements of classic ragtime fueled my early interest in fingerstyle guitar. I saw him play only twice, sadly. Quite the inspiration.

[JuanCarlosVejar]

Dave's playing and excellent guitaristic arrangements of classic ragtime fueled my early interest in fingerstyle guitar. I saw him play only twice, sadly. Quite the inspiration.

dod you see him play back in the 60's ?

 

 

 

JC

[zombywoof]

I saw him several times back in the 1960s as well as afterwards. Van Ronk and John Hammond, Jr. almost single handedly kept the acoustic blues alive back before the old guys were "re-discovered" during the folk music revival.