Gemini at 70
May. 24th, 2011 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustToday is Bob Dylan's 70th birthday; Saturday was Martin Carthy's. For the best part of 50 years they have been the fixed stars in my musical firmament. They are the two faces of folk music as I know it, the singer-songwriter and the reviver of traditional material, yet they are not opposites. The first Bob Dylan album I bought* credited Martin Carthy as the source of the tune for Bob Dylan's Dream. I wish I had been there when they were playing the Troubadour together.
I wish them both many happy days, and I thank them for all the music.
*My cousin Michael recommended two new folk singers, Tom Paxton and Bob Dylan. He told me that Dylan had made an album called Bob Dylan, but when I went to buy it I found there was a new one, Freewheelin', so I bought that instead.
I wish them both many happy days, and I thank them for all the music.
*My cousin Michael recommended two new folk singers, Tom Paxton and Bob Dylan. He told me that Dylan had made an album called Bob Dylan, but when I went to buy it I found there was a new one, Freewheelin', so I bought that instead.
