Celebrating David Kenneth Ritz “Dave” Van Ronk (June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002), an American guitarist and folk singer born in Brooklyn, NY. He was an important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City’s Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s.
I'm an expatriate Memphis musician and an instructor at a private music college in Minnesota. I find a greater clarity in my appreciation for music from Memphis and the Mississippi Delta region, now that I've lived away from it for decades, than when I was growing up in the midst of it.
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