Bob Dylan admitted copying Dave Van Ronk 'phrase for phrase.' But what happened next was 'very, very annoying' to the folk ...

R.H. Greene considers unsung folk hero Dave Van Ronk, who passed the torch to countless other musicians and inspired the latest film from Joel and Ethan Coen. His sound is as American as a Shaker ...

Bob Dylan moved to New York with the goal of meeting Woody Guthrie and becoming a musician. He succeeded on both counts; Dylan grew close with Guthrie and his family, and became one of the biggest ...

He was a bit like a bridge. And not just because he was big, or because he spanned an epoch stretching from Bob Dylan to Joni Mitchell to Jeff Tweedy. It’s just that if you wanted to go from mousy ...

Dave Van Ronk sings "St. James Infirmary (Gambler's Blues)" at The Barns at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia during a 1997 concert honoring Harry Smith's 'Anthology of American Folk Music.' This ...

Folk singer Dave Van Ronk, a respected figure on the early 1960s New York music scene and an early mentor of Bob Dylan, died Feb. 10 after a battle with colon cancer, his record company said. He was ...

I was married to and managed Dave Van Ronk, the folksinger whose memoir spurred the Coen brothers’ new movie, Inside Llewyn Davis. David and I were together from fall 1957 to fall 1968 and had been ...

HOLLYWOOD — Dave Van Ronk, a leader of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene who influenced and befriended musicians such as Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton and Janis Ian, died Sunday at New York U.

Noah Adams talks to folksinger and songwriter Tom Paxton about his friend and fellow folksinger Dave Van Ronk, who died Sunday at age 65. Van Ronk was a mother hen to many aspiring and later ...

The other day I heard a story about folk singer Dave Van Ronk being arrested at the Stonewall Riots. He was at a bar in Greenwich Village in New York and he emerged to find the riot happening. He ...

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David Kenneth Ritz Van Ronk (June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer. An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City's Greenwich Village scene in the ...