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Hal Willner

December 1, 2006 by: Alex Rawls

“You pick your cast and you work with them.”

One of the great ironies of the folk revival of the late 1950s is that one of its central texts emerged from the avant-garde. So many folk artists were characterized by an earnestness that was nowhere to be found in The Anthology of American Folk Mus...

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