Next year (January) will see the release of a Best of Hootenanny DVD.
Don’t know about y’all, but I used to love that show!
Quasi
Well, dayum!
I thought y’all’d be doing the happy dance over this news! 
It’s a 2-DVD set, but I hope they’ll put out more.
That and the old Shindig series.
Quasi
My parents must have been Limeliters fans; they had a dozen or so records, I remember. And some Joan Baez, which I picked through and grew to love. Looks like there’s some good stuff on that DVD. Too bad my folks aren’t around; it’d be a fun gift to them.
I’m not really a huge Limeliters fan myself, but Hoyt Axton, Johnny Cash, and so on–what’s not to enjoy there?
I missed seeing the show, though. I was born in '65.
I’ll be happy to hear some of those again.
It’s kind of sad that that era is so filtered by later tastes.
Why can’t oldies stations play all the genres, not just rock and roll?
Where have all the folksingers gone?
Long time passin’
Where have all the folksingers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the folksingers gone?
Paying mortgages, every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Good point. I miss hearing Pete Seger, Glen Yarbrough, and John Denver with the Chad Mitchell Trio on the radio.
Though I am sure there are stations on the net with just that specialty, I do spend a lot of time in my car and don’t turn that radio on, because in Atlanta now there aren’t any decent talk shows, and nothing but NPR appeals to me.
Q
Wheres Phil Ochs, Woody Guthrie , Dave Van Ronk. . Even Pete Seger not there.
I gotta get that! I haven’t entirely convinced my kids that “A Mighty Wind” was a real documentary, just with fictional people.
I hope that with the success of this release they’ll release another one with those guys and more.
Q
Just the other day I was thinking of starting a thread to find out what ever happened to folk music and the big singers of the day. I was thinking more in terms of Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Janis Ian, Dyan, James Taylor…hard to believe that at one time, these were the big acts on college campuses.
Folk music (of that ilk) seems to have just gone off a cliff in that psychedelic VW bus.
I hope they all invested in real estate back then.
I used to own brodside number one. I remember every song. Dylan singing The John Brown Ballad and Only a Hobo ,back when he cared. It perished in a house fire.
There’s WUMB out of Boston…ALL folk music ALL the time. Great stuff too…Indgio Girls, Ani, the Kennadys, even heard an Aztec Two Step the other day! :eek: 
…My parents are exactly the same as you…they aren’t exactly loving it when it comes to stuff like Gwen Stefani going B-A-N-A-N-A-S. They listen to NOTHING but WUMB, with an occasional slosh of WMVY (the station out of da Vineyard)