His sound is as American as a Shaker chair ... or a Bible with a bullet hole in it: Dave Van Ronk. Lone man with a guitar. And the inspiration for the latest Coen Brothers movie, “Inside Llewyn Davis.

Bob Dylan moved to New York with the goal of meeting Woody Guthrie and becoming a musician. He succeeded on both counts; Dylan grew close with Guthrie and his family, and became one of the biggest ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Before Bob Dylan became a folk legend, he was just another young songwriter wandering into Greenwich Village’s coffeehouses, hoping to learn from the best. And in the early 1960s, “the best” wasn’t ...

NEW YORK — Dave Van Ronk, a New York-born guitarist and singer who was at the forefront of the Greenwich Village folk boom, has died following treatment for colon cancer. He was 65. Van Ronk died ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before Bob Dylan became a folk legend, he was just another young songwriter wandering into Greenwich Village’s coffeehouses, ...

Noah Adams talks to folksinger and songwriter Tom Paxton about his friend and fellow folksinger Dave Van Ronk, who died Sunday at age 65. Van Ronk was a mother hen to many aspiring and later ...

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 ...

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