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JonT - Posted - 02/03/2014: 07:11:50
Here's a nice piece on Pete that turned up this morning. I thought I would pass it along.
lareviewofbooks.org/essay/pete...yn-davis/
Jim Yates - Posted - 02/03/2014: 07:46:42
I liked this piece a lot, especially the second last paragraph.
A couple of complaints...while the writer talked about Pete's left wing beliefs and his environmental concerns, civil rights were an important cause to Pete; probably as important as any.
He/she also said that Llewyn's "general air of repellent narcissism is softened only when he sings, often beautifully, his own songs." In any of the trailers and previews I've seen, he does not sing "his own songs" but rather traditional songs like Promenading Green or Dink's Song. Folks who have seen the film tell me that the Dylanesque character who appears near the end of the film signals a change away from folk singers and towards singer/songwriters.
Bronx banjo - Posted - 02/03/2014: 11:07:02
Llewyn Davis was is big disappointment. Given that it was a Coen Brothers flick, I was expecting something on a par with O Brother!, (a film that really uplifted our music.) It was hyped as being based on Dave Van Ronk, when actually I can't think of a personality more unlike Van Ronk. Van Ronk could have had this guy for breakfast. There was certainly no flavor of the folk years or of anyone representing the phenomenal influence of Pete Seeger or the enthusiasm of a whole generation discovering this "new" music. Instead we have a character study of a very internal individual who, for reasons unknown to the audience, creates his own sadness. And we don't know enough about him to care. Oh well, everyone's entitled to a stinkeroo once in a while. BTW; regarding the article, the Kingston Trio did sing Wimoweh with yodels and hollers, although arguably not as well as Mr. Seeger did.
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