The Little Sandy Review

[freakytigger]

http://newvulgate.blogspot.com/2009/07/issue-4-july-29-2009.html

For people interested in the 'birth of rockcrit' stuff we had going on, here's a piece about the folk-focused Little Sandy Review (founded 1959)

Comments

[carsmilesteve]

wow, that's fascinating, can't wait for part 2!

and links to meltzer on the beats as well...

[koganbot]

Good piece by Lightbourne and I want part two as well. What absolutely jumps out at me, though, is that, if Lightbourne's summary is correct, in regard to current folk c. 1960 the Little Sandy Review takes what you'd expect as the conventional position, championing the old stuff and the new stuff that tries to sound like it but hating on the popular bastardizations by the Kingston Trio and Belafonte and ilk. Of course, there's no reason in principle that Nelson et al. couldn't have been right about this, and I'm sure in a lot of instances they were ('cept the first two Kingston Trio albums cook, and the little I've heard of Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Dave Van Ronk is dull in comparison)(not that I know from Lightbourne's piece what the LSR guys thought of Elliott and Van Ronk). And Lightbourne goes along with the opinion, obviously. But someone who wouldn't have gone along with it is Bob Dylan. He wrote this about Belafonte in Chronicles:

He was dramatic and intense on the screen, had a boyish smile and a hard-core hostility...