he was a friend of mine...

way back in the 1950's in New York and you were a kid and wanted to be gaspoh (?), a folk singer you could get instruction from people like Rev Gary Davis and Brownie McGee.
These gentlemen undertook to instruct the white boys how to do it and they were very successful.
The list of those who went on to make it big in folk music and rock and roll is immense and popular music owes both men an undying debt of gratitude.
Yes indeedy.
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if you want to get acquainted with Dave Van Ronk then the above  Folkways album is the one to get.
5*****.
Dave came to NZ in the twilight of his life and he played at the Trekkers Bar in Cuba street.
No one told me but hey ya get that.
I got the album and I can play his songs.
That's enough.
I may not have been at the gig with the cheap hookers, penny rookers and groovy lookers but I carry his legacy on in my own way.

Listened to Hooton and Mike Williams discuss whale boil on the wireless this a.m.
He has got John Key on a string and the New Zealand public will not tolerate that for long.
And the general consensus is that Andrew Little is becoming more primeministerial by the second.

I have to correct Hooton in his assertion that it was Helen Clarks misdemeanours that put her out of office.
No it was the cacophonous din from the Joyce/impey media and the smartasses in the Media who did a snoopys christmas type character assassination on skawkback radio and her media advisor Brian Edwards was so wrapped up in getting the better of his adversary madame Boag that he was blindsided and could not see the wood from the trees.
Suck on that.
But it was great to listen to Kennedy Warne in the Seychelles and his view on how they are trying to bring the islands back to their natural; state after the depredations of the palm oil industry.
they stop at nothing to make sure the great unwashed get a sniff of SOAP.
teehee.