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C C Offline Jan 26, 2022 10:12 PM (This post was last modified: Jan 26, 2022 10:19 PM by C C.)
Dave Van Ronk. Died 20 years ago. His composition "Sunday Street" (embedded below) might be the first thing I ever heard of him, when it played during a folk music program on the radio.

Back in the early '60s, Bob Dylan recorded Van Ronk's arrangement of "House of the Rising Sun" (that the latter had performed to audiences for some time) before Ronk himself got a chance to do it.

Then in turn, The Animals borrowed the arrangement from Dylan's recording (with their own arpeggio spin on it), and that version became so popular that the song was no longer highly affiliated with Dylan, either.

I originally read or heard Dylan's side of the story during some rare interview; the two accounts match-up well. 

Van Ronk (from The Mayor of MacDougal Street): "I had learned it [House of the Rising Sun] sometime in the 1950s, from a recording by Hally Wood, the Texas singer and collector, who had got it from an Alan Lomax field recording by a Kentucky woman named Georgia Turner. I put a different spin on it by altering the chords and using a bass line that descended in half steps—a common enough progression in jazz, but unusual among folksingers.

By the early 1960s, the song had become one of my signature pieces, and I could hardly get off the stage without doing it.

Then, one evening in 1962, I was sitting at my usual table in the back of the Kettle of Fish, and Dylan came slouching in. He had been up at the Columbia studios with John Hammond, doing his first album. He was being very mysterioso about the whole thing, and nobody I knew had been to any of the sessions except Suze, his lady.

I pumped him for information, but he was vague. Everything was going fine and, "Hey, would it be okay for me to record your arrangement of 'House of the Rising Sun?'"

Oh, shit. "Jeez, Bobby, I'm going into the studio to do that myself in a few weeks. Can't it wait until your next album?"

A long pause. "Uh-oh".

I did not like the sound of that. "What exactly do you mean, 'Uh-oh'?"

"Well", he said sheepishly, "I've already recorded it".


Van Ronk's 1970s studio recording of "Sunday Street" is here: https://youtu.be/QhBU63NdewI

Dave Van Ronk: "Sunday Street"

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/rVTiDhOR35g
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C C Offline Jan 28, 2022 10:53 PM
The Best of Tommy Emmanuel - 16 track collection: https://youtu.be/A6dUzVJKYGM
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The documentary film and the composition

One intro to the film (The Endless Road): Tommy Emmanuel is the esteemed Grammy-nominated guitarist, composer and performer who combines virtuosity with storytelling wit. This is the fascinating story behind the man and his music.

With great honesty and a wealth of private footage and photographs, the documentary details the rise of the iconic Tommy Emmanuel, from child prodigy to ARIA Award winner & Grammy-nominated guitar legend, and features a star-studded cast, including Jason Isbell, Eric Idle, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Sir Barry Gibb and many more.

Winner of ‘Best Music Documentary’ at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, this is an excellent and understated portrait of one of Australia's great musicians and is super enjoyable from start to end...and filled with just fantastic music and guitar wizardry...

May 24, 2019 ... The Endless Road - film teaser

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/w9xfIUnW8m0


Oct 13, 2019 ... Tommy Emmanuel: plays "Endless Road"

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/bBrrbwTRRZo
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C C Offline Feb 1, 2022 10:50 PM (This post was last modified: Feb 1, 2022 11:02 PM by C C.)
The English guitarist Mike Dawes, from a couple of years ago.

Mike Dawes: instrumental cover of "Jump" (Van Halen)

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/sKbrycmEGjU

Recent one below (circa a week ago) from the Chinese classical guitarist.

Yang actually released one today, too, called "Flower Drum": https://youtu.be/ClWlyNKbBSQ

Xuefei Yang: "Luiza" (Antonio Carlos Jobim) ... arranged by Raphael Rabello

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/eei0hxFXAeA
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