Cry Cry Cry (Lucy Kaplansky, Richard Shindell, Dar Williams)

This entity gets called a "folk supergroup" with a frequency that has gotten tiresome. Each has or had a decent solo career (inside a narrow and almost-invisible nicheworld). They united to record one pretty good record of covers in 1998. They have reunited to tour and I saw them recently.

The appeal of, and audience for, this specific era of folk is sometimes hard to communicate about. Sometimes I tell rock-oriented friends that I listen to folk music and their thoughts tend to go to A Mighty Wind. Peter, Paul, and Mary. Blowin' in the Wind. Puff the Magic Dragon. Michael Row the Boat Ashore.

I start indulging in the Narcissism of Small Differences, saying shit like "No no, that's old-ass Boomer stuff - perhaps you are not aware that there is also contemporary folk music?" But at the same time, if I go to a Richard Shindell concert I am probably the youngest person in the audience not brought by their parents (and I'm 46). So. Anyway.

Fall on Me https://youtu.be/IscJjA6aflk
By Way of Sorrow https://youtu.be/4cjLI3qoYl8
Last Thing on my Mind https://youtu.be/_TYVQR6YYEM

My wife loves these 3 and saw them years ago and the other night. I am not a fan.

I do not dislike them, they just do not wow me. At the DC show my wife saw, NPR's Mara Laiason was there, Al Franken and MD congressman Jaimie Raskin too.

Same show. Melissa Block too. I like 6th & I but rarely have occasion to go there.

Anyway, it's okay, not everyone needs to be wowed by everything.

We’’re a few years older than you. I feel like with the right marketing approach, younger NPR indie-rock Tiny Desk types might like this stuff. But yes re not having to be wowed by everything.