Dave Van Ronk sings "St. James Infirmary (Gambler's Blues)" at The Barns at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia during a 1997 concert honoring Harry Smith's 'Anthology of American Folk Music.' This ...

He was a bit like a bridge. And not just because he was big, or because he spanned an epoch stretching from Bob Dylan to Joni Mitchell to Jeff Tweedy. It’s just that if you wanted to go from mousy ...

Dave Van RonkMusic critic Milo Miles remembers Dave Van Ronk, the folk performer who died last Sunday at the age of 65. He was an early leader of the urban folk movement in the late 1950s.

Dave Van Ronk, a folksinger whose career spanned nearly six decades, may never have achieved the acclaim or audience size of contemporaries like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen or Joni Mitchell, but his ...

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David Kenneth Ritz Van Ronk (June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer. An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City's Greenwich Village scene in the ...

That’s only partially accurate. In the notes to the film’s soundtrack, John Jeremiah Sullivan identifies Van Ronk as “the merchant marine turned jazzman turned country-blues interpreter whose life and ...