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Folk singer and musician Guy Carawan, who introduced the song “We Shall Overcome” to those rallying for civil rights in the 1960s, died Saturday after a lengthy illness. He was 87. http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local-news/guy-carawan-folk-singer-civil-rights-pioneer-dies-in-new-market_36983659

 

https://youtu.be/Tftdes9dp-A

 

Edit: Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/06/guy-carawan

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Ronnie Gilbert, singer with The Weavers, 88. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/arts/music/ronnie-gilbert-folk-singer-for-the-weavers-dies-at-88.html?_r=0

 

Tzena, Tzena, Tzena: https://youtu.be/QZ5v651bQ1o

 

Edit: Yet another hit for the Ron team on the DDP when there's a qualifying obit!

Thank you Guardian!!

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Bruce Rowland is in a hospice suffering from cancer. This comes from Dave Swarbrick's Facebook page.

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Bruce Rowland has died.

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Bruce Rowland has died.

Sad news. Here's Fairport Convention on STV with Flowers of the Forest: https://youtu.be/GH0UC1J8IIU

 

 

Yes rather melancholy. I have some Richard Thompson solo stuff, that's as close to the Fairport Convention as I've ever gotten I dare say.

RIP

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Val Doonican is 88 Today.

 

And now he's died. According to family he wasn't ill, just ran out of juice.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33363938

 

Got to be honest, although I'm familiar with him, I don't think I know any of his songs... :huh:

Give yourself a treat and listen to Delaney's Donkey!

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This is from April, but apparently folk is the musical genre which has the highest rate of deaths from cancer.

 

I thought the table below might appeal to some stats enthusiasts :)

 

musician-deaths-55196f50466e5.jpg

Several more charts and graphs here.

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This is from April, but apparently folk is the musical genre which has the highest rate of deaths from cancer.

 

I thought the table below might appeal to some stats enthusiasts :)

 

musician-deaths-55196f50466e5.jpg

Several more charts and graphs here.

 

 

Aye, but only because those pussy tree-hugging folkies smoke fags and fuck their lungs. If only they had the bottle to off themselves like hard metal men, or off each other like rappers they'd snag us high DDP points for early deaths, or summat.

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This is from April, but apparently folk is the musical genre which has the highest rate of deaths from cancer.

 

I thought the table below might appeal to some stats enthusiasts :)

 

musician-deaths-55196f50466e5.jpg

Several more charts and graphs here.

 

 

Aye, but only because those pussy tree-hugging folkies smoke fags and fuck their lungs. If only they had the bottle to off themselves like hard metal men, or off each other like rappers they'd snag us high DDP points for early deaths, or summat.

 

 

Isn't cancer what you get when everything else has failed to kill you. Hence as we tackle heart-disease and infections cancer rates will rise. I heard on the radio yesterday that 1 in 2 people will get cancer in their lifetime.

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This is from April, but apparently folk is the musical genre which has the highest rate of deaths from cancer.

 

I thought the table below might appeal to some stats enthusiasts :)

 

musician-deaths-55196f50466e5.jpg

Several more charts and graphs here.

Fascinating. And the statistics confirm all the clichés. Smoke-filled jazz clubs lead to lung cancer, and rappers all shoot each other. Well, it's not quite that obvious because the 30,6% of cancer-related deaths in Jazz isn't all that different from the 24,7% in rock, but one can easily construct a fitting narrative.

 

Edit: Also another related article linked from that one, is this one here:

https://theconversation.com/the-27-club-is-a-myth-56-is-the-bum-note-for-musicians-33586

 

It's about the arbitrariness of the 27 Club, and that it would be more logical to make up a "56 Club". But just because the age of 56 is the one when musicians die most often, it still accounts for only 2,3% of all dying musicians, so picking random 56-year old musicians is a worse strategy than picking random U.S. males at age 71 (but better than random U.S. males at 70).

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Too young to appreciate them, but I was just singing this number the other day!

 

Meet Me On The Corner: https://youtu.be/MYPBF4s8m_Y

 

 

 

Is that because it's being used as the theme for Boy Meets Girl?

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Too young to appreciate them, but I was just singing this number the other day!

 

Meet Me On The Corner: https://youtu.be/MYPBF4s8m_Y

 

 

 

Is that because it's being used as the theme for Boy Meets Girl?

 

 

Had to look that up, Handy, nah, it came up in a karaoke session. Is that show worth watching?

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Too young to appreciate them, but I was just singing this number the other day!

 

Meet Me On The Corner: https://youtu.be/MYPBF4s8m_Y

 

 

 

Is that because it's being used as the theme for Boy Meets Girl?

 

 

Had to look that up, Handy, nah, it came up in a karaoke session. Is that show worth watching?

 

 

 

 

Little known Cowe fact, Groundskeeper Willie from The Simpsons is based on Si

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