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John Jacob Niles
I'm giggling right now, because I would LOVE to see your faces as you listen to this. (NOTE: This is now an mp3, since WMA was a problem).
John Jacob Niles was...unique. VERY unique. When I was a little boy, my mother used to play a record of his folk songs. He was unusual in that he actually wrote folk songs, as well as performing traditional ones.
And his singing voice is really like no one else's. I'm afraid that some of you may turn it off after the first three seconds (if that)...well, it's a pretty low-quality recording. I'm going to try to get the CD of his music, and see if I can put up something better.
Incidentally, this recording is something of a rarity. Why? Because there's a glitch in the HTML of the site that I got it from, the official John Jacob Niles site. I had to work a little to figure out the right URL for the WMA, and enter it manually. EDIT: And now I've converted it to an MP3. If you want to reach the original WMA file, go here.
I'd like to hear what you think of it, and I really won't be offended if you don't like it. This medley isn't a very good representation of his music. It's just so weird that I had to post it.
Incidentally, something else odd about John Jacob Niles: he looked a lot like my maternal grandfather, at least on the album cover. I think that's another reason that I like him.
John Jacob Niles was...unique. VERY unique. When I was a little boy, my mother used to play a record of his folk songs. He was unusual in that he actually wrote folk songs, as well as performing traditional ones.
And his singing voice is really like no one else's. I'm afraid that some of you may turn it off after the first three seconds (if that)...well, it's a pretty low-quality recording. I'm going to try to get the CD of his music, and see if I can put up something better.
Incidentally, this recording is something of a rarity. Why? Because there's a glitch in the HTML of the site that I got it from, the official John Jacob Niles site. I had to work a little to figure out the right URL for the WMA, and enter it manually. EDIT: And now I've converted it to an MP3. If you want to reach the original WMA file, go here.
I'd like to hear what you think of it, and I really won't be offended if you don't like it. This medley isn't a very good representation of his music. It's just so weird that I had to post it.
Incidentally, something else odd about John Jacob Niles: he looked a lot like my maternal grandfather, at least on the album cover. I think that's another reason that I like him.