Dave Van Ronk- Ballards Blues & A Spiritual Format:LP With drummer Don Christensen slipping

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Dave Van Ronk- Ballards Blues & A Spiritual Format:LP With drummer Don Christensen slippingLabel: Smithsonian Released 1959, reissued 2018 Dubbed "The Mayor of MacDougal Street," Dave Van Ronk (1936 2002) was an iconoclastic folksinger and an influential figure in the American folk music revival of the 1960s. Because of his interest in African American folk music and blues, and his gift (or curse) of a gravelly baritone voice, Van Ronk was often criticized for his approach to his musical repertoire. His rejoinder was that he reserved the