The Mayor of MacDougal Street: A Memoir by Dave Van Ronk, Elijah Wald
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Book Review: Just van Ronk
Summary: 4 Stars
I attended a van Ronk performance ten years ago in Christchurch , New Zealand. It was in a bikers Blues Bar. He was right at home there.
He is at home to us in the pages of this memoir.
The tellings are ' of their time'. At once rough and poignant. My 4 **** rating is petulant. Simply that he (whose voice is indominitable - I said that- and that of a 'Soldier of Fortune' - Dylan said that) had the temerity to die before he could personally add more to his wonderfully honest appreciation of the times in which he lived, based on the origins of a music form that has been purloined by minor talents that have received massive public attention and notoriety. Nothing glib here. It's straight van Ronk.
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