Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival - (Popular Music History) by Bruce Lindsay (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival explores the lives and song traditions of two of the most influential English traditional singers: Sam Larner and Harry Cox"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival</em> is the first book to explore in depth the lives and song traditions of two of the most influential English traditional singers: Sam Larner and Harry Cox.</p><p><br></p><p>Larner and Cox were born in late nineteenth-century Norfolk, within six years and fifteen miles of each other. Both men grew up in large working-class families, started work before their teens, spent their working lives in hard manual labour - Larner as a trawlerman, Cox as a farm labourer - and lived into their eighties. Both men were singers from an early age, amassed large repertoires of songs that are now established in the traditional canon, and became key figures in the "folk revival" of the 1950s and 1960s. They directly influenced performers such as Martin Carthy, Shirley Collins, Peggy Seeger, Young Tradition, and Steeleye Span, while indirectly influencing Paul Simon and Bob Dylan. Their impact extends to the current generation of performers and composers in the folk, Americana, and singer/songwriter fields, as well as to Hollywood.</p><p><br></p><p>Using extensive primary evidence - including recorded interviews with both men - this book provides the first detailed biographies of these great singers, placing their singing and repertoires within the social and cultural contexts in which they lived. It will appeal equally to lovers of traditional song, to social history enthusiasts, and to any reader keen to know more of the fascinating lives of two outstanding singers whose influence continues to this day.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Lindsay does a great job of putting flesh on the bones of Larner and Cox's characters. His research has been assiduous and he takes the reader right into the homes the two men created, and where they worked up their songs and later held court, and into the village pubs. . . . The book works as a very readable and often fascinating source of both folk music lore and social history. . . . Recommended reading for anyone interested in folk song, folk singing and where folk singers got their songs from."--Rob Adams, robadamsjournalist.com<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Bruce Lindsay has a PhD in history from the University of East Anglia. He is a freelance music journalist and social history researcher writing for All About Jazz and Jazz Journal. In the past he was a semiprofessional guitarist and bassist in R&B, soul and jazz bands and was a regular performer at open-mike nights and folk sessions across East Anglia. He is the author of Shellac & Swing: A Social History of the Gramophone in Britain published in 2019.
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