Si Kahn: c/d, rfi, etc

What a great songwriter. Be sure to check out his "Aregon Mill" performed by the Red Clay Ramblers on "Chuckin' the Frizz".

i know this guy! he was a big knoxville folkie for a while, hung out with guy carawan, john mccutcheon, rich kirby, tommy bledsoe. not the greatest singing voice let's be fair though it's certainly his own and some of his songs are fantastic. my favorite growing up was "government on horseback", but i think i just liked it cause it was jaunty.

"gonna rise again" or whatever it was called, was the other big "hit" i remember from countless times seeing si at the jubilee center in knoxville, or elsewhere

I'm massively biased here (Si is a friend of the family who used to stay over at our place when he'd play Chicago and I love his early stuff: "who is watching the man who's watching me?" etc.) so I will just relate the experience of other reliable sources: a friend who worked in a folk club raved about Si's live shows, and our kids have been known to listen to his Goodnight Moon/Runaway Bunny audiobooks and demand hours of repeat play. He's got a book called Fox in the Henhouse that pretty well sums up the current administration.

wow - he has stayed over at my parents' place too! that is pretty crazy.

i forgot about all the great kids' albums.

Crazy small world!

didja ever hear michael kline? he's my best friend's dad.

Nope, what's he like?

mountain music, union solidarity stuff. he's pretty old now. i guess all these guys are.

Cool, I'll check him out. Looked up his bio, it seems he worked at the Pioneer Valley Folklore Society at or around the time as my pal Jessamyn. Small world again!

I always liked the album Home, from '79; wish I still had my copy. The one from a year later, Doing My Job, apparently a concept album about work, is also supposed to be good...

Here's a New Mexico radio show that starts with about 40 minutes of Si Kahn recordings and conversation, lots of great stories about his roots. It aired earlier this month at the preposterous hour of 5:30 AM here in Boston. "People Like You," an old favorite, comes in about the 37 minute mark.

http://www.artofthesong.org/tune-in/shows/show-193/