Dave Van Ronk
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Sep 29, 2026
Tim RobbinsGUEST
I remember him, my sister telling a story of Pete Seeger, uh, carrying her to the car when she was asleep, w- was falling asleep.
Tim RobbinsGUEST
Um, Dave Van Ronk was around.
Tim RobbinsGUEST
It w- there were some really good, good musicians.
Tim RobbinsGUEST
Um, incidentally, all inspired by, you know, this whole wave of people that wound up in Greenwich Village in the early '60s was inspired by, uh, troubadours that were going around the world.
Colin JamesGUEST
You know, they would have bluegrass from the East Coast of the United States.
Colin JamesGUEST
They would have Dave Van Ronk, Woody Guthrie, Roosevelt Sykes, John Hammond Jr., know just everything um the roche sisters i remember seeing maggie you know uh maggie terry and suzzy that's her name uh i remember seeing them and they were weird but i i you know uh they were more contemporary uh loudon wainwright i remember seeing him there all kinds of people
Terry David MulliganHOST
maybe what they showed you colin was possibilities were possibilities for you
Colin JamesGUEST
well Yeah, I mean, I remember, you know, it was different every year, and I think the one year that John Hammond was there was the year that it really...
Chris GregoryHOST
He also freely adapted many folk songs, composing or borrowing new melodies, as many existed only in manuscript form.
Chris GregoryHOST
very much as singers like Dave Van Ronk and Jack Elliott were doing with American material.
Chris GregoryHOST
His immersion in, and dedication to, British traditional music parallels Dylan's grounding in American folk forms.
Chris GregoryHOST
Dylan had already shown some interest in such music by this point in his career, having performed songs such as Long Time a-Growing, House Carpenter and The Cuckoo is a Pretty Bird.
Colin JamesGUEST
Oh, so good.
Colin JamesGUEST
You know, and I would see Elizabeth Cotton or I'd see John Hammond Jr. or Roosevelt Sykes or Pete Seeger, Dave Van Ronk.
Colin JamesGUEST
So, you know, I think the writing was on the wall as far as what I was going to do for a living pretty early on.
Jann ArdenHOST
Who gave you the guitar?
Lisa SahulkaHOST
Beautiful music rooted firmly in American musical traditions.
Lisa SahulkaHOST
And then Dave Van Ronk, who was at one time the king of the Greenwich Village folk scene.
Lisa SahulkaHOST
And here he is with the Bob Dylan tune that was written for Woody Guthrie, Song to Woody.
Lisa SahulkaHOST
We heard the Jimmy Webb tune, Wichita Lineman.
David HamburgerGUEST
And it was just really much easier to listen.
David HamburgerGUEST
Same reason all the revivalist guys like Dave Van Ronk and even John Hammond, anybody who recorded in the 60s was just they had they had because they had learned it this is my my theory is that in learning that music they sort of smoothed it out a little bit and made it a little more regular but they also recorded in cleaner more modern circumstances so between those two things way easier to learn from the folk revival people than it was from the original artist combined with the fact that i couldn't find most of the records until i was already a lot further along
Ben MartinHOST
That makes sense.
Ben MartinHOST
And also, I mean, a lot of those 60s recordings onwards are also in tune, which, you know, which really helps when you're sitting with a guitar and trying to figure it out, you know?
Nate WilcoxHOST
And so it's, it's very cool to me that Clarence Ashley and Roscoe Holcomb sort of both come back into the narrative through the second wave of, of folk revivalists.
Nate WilcoxHOST
And then another contemporary of John Cohen, uh, a guitarist in the Village, Greenwich Village, named Dave Van Ronk, does a version of House of the Rising Sun where he adds new chords, and he takes it into the minor key.
Ted AnthonyGUEST
Um, he does.
Ted AnthonyGUEST
Uh, and al- although Josh White did that too in the early 1940s, so again, provenance becomes a question here.
Josh WhiteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun.
Josh WhiteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And it's been the ruin of a many a poor girl and me, oh God.
Nate WilcoxHOST
And that was Josh White bringing the House of the Su- Rising Sun into the minor key, which Dave Van Ronk either picked up from him or added creatively on his own, and then Bob Dylan admittedly swipes it from Dave Van Ronk, puts it on his first album, which was on Columbia Records.
Nate WilcoxHOST
Didn't, wasn't a big seller, but after his second album was succeeded, that album got around, and it got to Newcastle, England.
Theo KandelGUEST
Yeah.
Theo KandelGUEST
The Dave Van Ronk, you know, New York, Greenwich Village area era of 60s folk.
Theo KandelGUEST
Yeah.
Theo KandelGUEST
And it comes and goes.
DianeHOST
So he didn't really get to enjoy it that much.
DianeHOST
It had started out as a nightclub called The Generation that hosted Big Brother and The Holding Company, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Dave Van Ronk, and Sly and the Family Stone.
DianeHOST
When it closed, Hendrix wanted to buy it and reopen it as a club, but a couple of advisors suggested that he convert it into a professional recording studio.
DianeHOST
The studio was unique in that it was the only one owned by an artist at the time.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, there was five, six other guys doing the same thing.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When he came back, he was doing Woody, and he was doing Van Ronk, and he was finger-picking.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He was playing cross-harp.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is a matter of a couple of months.
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