{"id":116859,"date":"2024-10-21T23:45:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116859"},"modified":"2024-10-21T23:45:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:45:49","slug":"bob-dylan-was-an-endearing-young-scallywag-barbara-dane-the-singer-who-burned-a-path-through-folk-blues-and-activism-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116859","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bob Dylan was an endearing young scallywag!\u2019 Barbara Dane, the singer who burned a path through folk, blues and activism | Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\"><span style=\"color:var(--drop-cap);font-weight:700;\" class=\"dcr-15rw6c2\">A<\/span>s a singer-songwriter who was as devoted to social change as she was to her craft, Barbara Dane, who has died aged 97, is a singularly inspiring figure in American music. Amid a crop of reissues and a new film, I spoke to her just last week over the phone as she was cared for in a home hospice in Oakland, California, due to heart disease. As a singer, songwriter and activist over almost 80 years, finding kinship with everyone from Bob Dylan to Louis Armstrong, she demonstrated formidable quantities of courage and compassion, as documented in that new film, The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">\u201cThis is the end,\u201d Dane said when I tentatively asked how she is. \u201cI struggle to breathe. My time ain\u2019t long.\u201d In US folk and blues circles, Dane was venerated for breaking down racial and gender barriers and never compromising. \u201cShe\u2019s always been a role model and a hero of mine \u2013 musically and politically,\u201d Bonnie Raitt, one of Dane\u2019s many famous admirers, has said. A Dylan blurb graces the cover of her 2022 autobiography: \u201cBarbara is someone who is willing to follow her conscience. She is, if the term must be used, a hero.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"975011cc-85a9-4712-98a5-6ced5194355d\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.VideoYoutubeBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-173mewl\">\n<div data-component=\"youtube-embed\" class=\"dcr-1y1vf5o\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/T0YrT_KDIxo?wmode=opaque&amp;feature=oembed\" title=\"I\u2019m On My Way\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">In the UK, her star is rather lower: she is best known for Northern soul anthem I\u2019m on My Way, recently reissued as a 7in. Dane made the 1960 recording with industry mavericks Lee Hazlewood and Lester Sill. \u201cIt was very straightforward,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen I heard the finished record, he\u2019d gone and added horns and transformed it into a dance tune. It got me some airplay but I never gave it much thought until I heard how crazy they were for it in England. Then Samsung used it to soundtrack a commercial and I got paid royalties for the first time \u2013 Lee and Lester never paid me royalties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Dane was born and raised in Detroit, the eldest child of a pharmacist who publicly admonished nine-year-old Barbara for serving a soda to a Black man in his drugstore. The humiliation of her and the customer set Dane on a lifelong path fighting racism and injustice. A teenage communist, she began singing folk, then blues (\u201cfemale blues singers wrote and sang about their lives with such feeling and directness\u201d). In her remarkable autobiography, This Bell Still Rings: My Life of Defiance and Song, Dane recalls encounters with Woody Guthrie, Big Bill Broonzy, Pete Seeger, Earl Hines, Jack Teagarden, Count Basie, to name but a few.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"f8382855-42ee-4a61-8672-35841a658c53\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-173mewl\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1fujct4\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><svg width=\"18\" height=\"13\" viewbox=\"0 0 18 13\"><path d=\"M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">Dane with Lightnin\u2019 Hopkins.<\/span> Photograph: Chris Strachwitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Dane released her debut album, Trouble In Mind, in 1957 \u2013 \u201cBessie Smith in stereo\u201d declared British jazz critic Leonard Feather \u2013 and, in 1959, Louis Armstrong, having shared the stage with her, invited Barbara to join him on a TV special. \u201cDid you get that chick? She\u2019s a gasser!\u201d Armstrong would declare to Time magazine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Relocating to New York City made Dane the unintentional godmother of Greenwich Village\u2019s burgeoning folk scene. Inevitably, she befriended Dylan: \u201cHe used to turn up on stage uninvited when I was singing!\u201d she said. Dylan would play her his new songs, \u201can enormous talent hidden inside an endearing young scallywag\u201d. An actor plays Dane in forthcoming Dylan biopic<strong> <\/strong>A Complete Unknown but she disdains celebrity. \u201cBob was hungry for fame and that never interested me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Instead, Dane focused on activism: vocal in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam war movements. In 1966, she was one of the first US artists to tour post-revolutionary Cuba, then sang in North Vietnam as the war raged. All the while Dane continued to champion Black artists, recording with Lightnin\u2019 Hopkins then launching psych-soul band the Chambers Brothers at Newport folk festival: the 1966 album Barbara Dane and the Chambers Brothers is possibly the first US album cover to feature a white woman and Black men as equals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">\u201cThe Chambers Brothers were great talents,\u201d Dane said. \u201cEarly on in LA, I suggested they join me in Mississippi singing freedom songs for the movement but, as they were originally from Mississippi, there was no way they were going back there. A wise decision on their part.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"7aef4884-f794-49d2-87b5-114e796a059a\" data-spacefinder-role=\"showcase\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-5h0uf4\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1pvqcrw\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><svg width=\"18\" height=\"13\" viewbox=\"0 0 18 13\"><path d=\"M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">On an anti-war march in San Francisco.<\/span> Photograph: Erik Weber<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">While many of her contemporaries went on to earn fortunes, Dane slipped into the shadows of American music. Partly this was due to her contempt for the music industry \u2013 she turned down Albert Grossman, powerhouse manager of Dylan, when he emphasised she should leave politics behind. Her love of vintage blues and trad jazz made Dane appear old fashioned once rock dominated. She also admits to self-sabotaging: in 1960, when both Capitol and Atlantic offered her deals, she opted for Capitol, so missing out on joining America\u2019s then premier blues and jazz label. Appearances singing on hugely popular TV variety shows hosted by Ed Sullivan and Johnny Carson went awry. Her political beliefs meant Dane was blacklisted by the Hootenanny folk TV show, then bumped off goodwill tours with Armstrong and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee by the state department. \u201cHaving a brassy blond woman openly criticising the USA all over Africa, Asia and Europe was never going to happen,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">In 1970, Dane founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.folkways.si.edu\/paredon\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Paredon Records<\/a>, a label that allowed her to release albums alongside music she embraced from across the globe. Her 1973 album I Hate the Capitalist System is brilliantly blunt, an overlooked gem, with Working Class Woman being a trenchant protest song. The album feels ever more relevant now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">\u201cCapitalism has made things worse than they were then, sure,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s increased economic insecurity and that\u2019s why we find people turning to Trump and conspiracy theories and religion, the stuff that gives them easy answers. As a Marxist, I believe that a period of socialism has to follow. If I\u2019m wrong, well, I won\u2019t be here but our world can\u2019t survive. Capitalism and climate change have created a crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">She lived longer than most of her contemporaries, and Dane recalled comedian Lenny Bruce and folk singer Phil Ochs \u2013 both radical artists who died young \u2013 with affection. \u201cLenny was dedicated to outing all the hypocrites and they made him pay for it. Phil was bipolar. People focus on the tragedy of his life when they should be celebrating his stunning songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"fd685fa3-33f1-4901-9016-3fb211a6c1f9\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.VideoYoutubeBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-173mewl\">\n<div data-component=\"youtube-embed\" class=\"dcr-13aa88h\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/IJj4j5sfpnc?wmode=opaque&amp;feature=oembed\" title=\"DOC\u2019 N ROLL FF 2024 | THE 9 LIVES OF BARBARA DANE | trailer\" height=\"480\" width=\"854\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Throughout her life of ardent struggle, Dane never lost her love of music. \u201cThere\u2019s a power in music that unites people. You can take a roomful of people and make them feel their kinship in a way that nothing else can with a song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Appropriately, Smithsonian Folkways has compiled a double CD career retrospective, Barbara Dane: Hot Jazz, Cool <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/blues\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Blues<\/a> &amp; Hard Hitting Songs, while Jasmine Records is reissuing her earliest albums. Along with Maureen Gosling\u2019s engaging documentary and that garlanded Northern soul 45, it appears that Dane is finally receiving the respect she has long deserved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">\u201cI was interested in communicating with people, not fame,\u201d she said. \u201cIf the film and reissues allow me to continue to do so after I\u2019m gone, well, so be it.\u201d<\/p>\n<footer class=\"dcr-106f06m\">\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\"><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/> The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane screens at the Barbican, London, on 27 October as part of Doc\u2019n Roll film festival.<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2024\/oct\/21\/barbara-dane-bob-dylan-folk-blues-activism\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a singer-songwriter who was as devoted to social change as she was to her craft, Barbara Dane, who has died aged 97, is a singularly inspiring figure in American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116859\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}