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  • Don McLean

    Don McLean discusses his career and his music

    1980

    Don McLean discusses his career and his music. Don McLean discusses his influences, life experiences, and his songwriting.

  • Doc Watson discusses his career

    Dec. 14, 1972
  • Discussing Vietnam with Claire Culhane ; part 2 ; Bob Gibson discusses music with Studs Terkel

  • Discussing Ukrainian music with Oleh Saciuk

    Oct. 25, 1979

    Studs Terkel discussing Ukrainian music with Oleh Saciuk. Includes instrumental music excerpts.

  • Discussing the play "Galena Rose" with folksinger, songwriter, and playwright Jim Post

    Jun. 25, 1987
  • Discussing the new album "Songs From the Briar Patch" and interviewing folk singer Tom Paxton

    May. 13, 1977
  • Discussing the book "Woody Guthrie: A Life," with Joe Klein

    Nov. 17, 1980

    Program includes an excerpt of an interview with Woody Guthrie.

  • Discussing the book "Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music" with the author, music historian Judith Tick

    Dec. 12, 1997
  • Discussing the book "No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan, with the author, music critic Robert Shelton.

    Sep. 30, 1986

    Program opens with an excerpt of a May 1, 1963, interview with singer and songwriter Bob Dylan.

  • Discussing the book "For Democracy, Workers, and God: Labor Song-Poems and Labor Protest, 1865-95," a collection of songs and poems with folksinger and songwriter Bucky Halker

    Jun. 14, 1991
  • Discussing the book "Biography of a Hunch: The History of Chicago's Legendary Old Town School of Folk Music," with author Lisa Grayson and the Executive Director of the Old Town School of Folk Music, Jim Hirsch

    Feb. 11, 1993
  • Discussing the book "Aesop's Fables Retold in Verse" with Tom Paxton

    Sep. 20, 1988
  • Discussing the album "Unfinished Portraits," with folksinger, songwriter, guitarist and political activist Si Kahn

    Jan. 10, 1985
  • Discussing the album "Folksongs of the American dream," with folksinger Joe Glazer

    Aug. 26, 1994
  • Discussing music history and the book "John Hammond on record" with the author John Hammond, Sr.

    Mar. 13, 1981

    Discussing music history and the book "John Hammond on record" with the author John Hammond, Sr.

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