SOME FOLK NAMES

SOME FOLK NAMES

(an impromptu list, spontaneous, not inclusive, &
based on my own song associations)

Doc Watson
Clarence Ashley (Tom)
Ralph Rinzler

Roscoe Holcomb
John Cohen

Bristol, Tennessee
Mother Mabel Carter,
Carter Family
Ralph Peel

Doc Boggs

Alan Lomax
Huddle Ledbetter (Leadbelly)

Iris Dement
Pizza Tapes - Jerry Garcia, D.Grisman

Josh White
Dave Van Ronk
Gas Lamp,
Gerde’s Folk City, Mike Porco

Jean Redpath
Cisco Houston

Charles Seeger
Elizabeth Cotten (Libba)

Paul Robeson
Henry Wallace
Peekskill concert

Pete Seeger (all)
Almanacs, Weavers

Erik Darling, Alan Arkin
Harry Belafonte

Peter, Paul & Mary
The Bitter End, 1961

Mike Seeger
New Lost City Ramblers

Mississippi John Hurt

Stanley Brothers
Jean Ritchie (Viper, Ky.)
Aunt Molly Jackson

Thelonious Monk
Marian Anderson
Beulah Land

Woody Guthrie
Rambling’ Jack Elliot
Bob Dylan

Swan Silvertones, Dixie Hummingbirds

Carl Sandburg

John Lomax, Tex-i-an Boys
Alan Lomax

Muddy Waters
Hubert Sumlin
Howling’ Wolf  (Chester Arthur Burnett)
Willie Dixon
Little Walter
Robert Lockwood
John Lee Hooker
Johnny Shines

Son House
Skip James
Robert Johnson
Mance Lipscomb,
Lightning’ Hopkins

Blind Willie Johnson
Rev. Gary Davis
Rev F.W. McGee (50 Miles of Elbow Room)

Woody Guthrie
Hank Williams

Roosevelt Sykes, Big Bill Bronzy

Fisk Jubilee Singers
Guy Carawan

Wallis Willis

Cecil Sharp
Francis James Child (Child Ballads)

Ewan MacColl
A.L. Lloyd, Louis Killen
The Watersons (M. Carthy)
Oss Oss Wee Oss!

Moe Asch - Folkways
Erwin Silber - Sing Out!

Sam Hinton
Joan Baez

Don Edwards.
Jimmy Rogers

Mississippi John Hurt

Okey
Izzy Young / Folklore Center
Judson Memorial Church

Harry Belafonte
Lord Kitchener
Lord Flea, Calypso

Haiti
Oswald Durand (Choucoune)
Mills Brothers (Yellow Bird)

Gaither Carlton
Rosa Lee Carlton Watson
Doc Arthel Watson
Your Lone Journey

Bill Monroe

Richie Havens

The Weavers, Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger,
Kosoy Sisters, Erik Daring

James Baldwin, Leroi Jones
Peter Guralnilk, Greil Marcus, Nick Tosches

Melrose, LA - The Ashgrove

Max Hunter Archive (Ollie Gilbert and all)

Anonymous (always