[Dragaera] Richard Dyer-Bennet

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And, curiously, my parents had some of RDB's music well before I met DDB.

On 01/19/2011 09:15 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> On Wed, January 19, 2011 00:51, Philip Hart wrote:
>> When I was a lonely grad student in Chicago, I used to listen to a radio
>> program called "The Midnight Special", which played folk and other sorts
>> of music.  For a period the show would open with a song by some guy who
>> sounded like he had just come in from forty days and forty nights in the
>> wilderness, with an amazing range and some sort of guitar technique that
>> probably involved a lost dulcimer.  I just looked up the song, which I've
>> never known anything about at all but which has always meant a lot to me,
>> and arrived at
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRJMQgRhrGw
>>
>> Lots of other cool stuff can be found there.
> All the albums he released on his own label are now available in rather
> nicely re-mastered CD versions from Smithsonian Folkways
> <http://www.folkways.si.edu/searchresults.aspx?sPhrase=Dyer-Bennet&sType=%27phrase%27>.
>   And there's a biography available
> <http://www.amazon.com/Richard-Dyer-Bennet-Minstrel-American-Music/dp/1604733608/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1295449496&sr=8-2>
> (Paul O. Jenkins lived next door to us when we first lived in Northfield,
> and first heard Richard's music on our stereo.  Well, it wasn't actually a
> stereo yet, back then.)
>
> He did perform briefly with a lute.  I'm not aware of a dulcimer figuring
> into things.  When he changed to guitar, he studied classical guitar for
> three years with one of the Spanish masters, whose name I'm now forgetting
> (it's in the book).

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