quarta-feira, junho 30, 2021

Dave Van Ronk nasceu há 85 anos

 

David Kenneth Ritz Van Ronk (Brooklyn, New York City, June 30, 1936 – New York City,February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer. An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City's Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, he was nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street".

Van Ronk's work ranged from old English ballads to blues, gospel, rock, New Orleans jazz, and swing. He was also known for performing instrumental ragtime guitar music, especially his transcription of "St. Louis Tickle" and Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag". Van Ronk was a widely admired avuncular figure in "the Village", presiding over the coffeehouse folk culture and acting as a friend to many up-and-coming artists by inspiring, assisting, and promoting them. Folk performers he befriended include Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Patrick Sky, Phil Ochs, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and Joni Mitchell. Dylan recorded Van Ronk's arrangement of the traditional song "House of the Rising Sun" on his first album, which the Animals turned into a chart-topping rock single in 1964, helping inaugurate the folk-rock movement.

Van Ronk received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in December 1997. He died in a New York hospital of cardiopulmonary failure while undergoing postoperative treatment for colon cancer.
 

  


 Green Rocky Road - Dave Van Ronk

When I go to Baltimore
Got no carpet on my floor
Come along and follow me
 
We'll go down in history
 
Green green rocky road
Promenade in green
Tell me who d' you love
Tell me who d' you love
 
See that crow up in the sky
He don't crow nor can he fly
He can't walk nor can he run
He's black paint slattered on the sun
 
Green green rocky road
Promenade in green
Tell me who d' you love
Tell me who d' you love
 
Little Miss Jane runnin' to the ball
Don't you stumble don't you fall
Don't you sing and don't you shout
When I sing come runnin' out
 
Green green rocky road
Promenade in green
Tell me who d' you love
Tell me who d' you love
 
A tooka soda cracker
Does your mama chew tobacco
If your mama chew tobacco

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