Re: Richard Farina/Carolyn Hester

[Seth Austen <klezmusic...>]

on 5/6/03 4:01 PM, music (at) sterlingmp(dot)org at music (at) 
sterlingmp(dot)org wrote:

> I'm not sure on what basis Trudi writes that Joan lifted a lot from Carolyn
> Hester, either--or even how Trudi knows that they had much contact at all,
> though that may be so.  (But is it--or was it?)  Joan did lift a lot from
> Debbie Green, but that's a who she to those not familiar with the Cambridge

I wasn't there, so I don't know firsthand, however in Positively Fourth
Street, a book about Richard and Mimi and Joan and Bob (Dylan) there's
significant stories of Joan learning other peoples repertoire and
arrangements verbatim and then performing them without giving credit.

Seth
 
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