This week on From the Vault, we launch our summer Arts and Literature Series with a hilarious romp hosted by three true minstrels of folk folly: Phil Ochs, Dave Van Ronk and Patrick Sky. On April 21st 1973, these three friends and pioneers of the Greenwich Village folk scene made an impromptu visit to perform live on The Free Music Store, a WBAI radio show dedicated to bringing live music to the New York City airwaves during the 1960’s and 1970’s. Ochs, Van Ronk, and Sky deliver a set of music they learned from the Folkways Anthology of American Folk Music compiled by Harry Smith in 1952: Van Ronk and Sky offer their rendition of a few blues tunes from Mississippi John Hurt, Ochs performs his song “Flower Lady†originally released on the 1967 album Pleasures of the Harbor, and then the three musicians use the remainder of the concert taking turns wowing the audience their best work and good cheer.
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