Dave Van Ronk
Dave Van Ronk
David Kenneth Ritz "Dave" Van Ronkwas an American folk singer. An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City's Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, he was nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth30 June 1936
CountryUnited States of America
basically continuing mark officer school send
They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.
tired wanted
By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.
stars memories eight
One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.
music couple cutting
Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.
country song strong
Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.
labels records rooms
In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.
principles forget-you forget
Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.
men stubborn
I'm a very, very stubborn man.
cutting musician jazz
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
thinking years two
I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.
thinking together might
I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.
kids exhibitionist
I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.
heart cool-jazz bebop
Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
incentives audience fronts
When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.