{"product_id":"9780810861329","title":"Paul Clayton and the Folksong Revival (American Folk Music and Musicians Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA scholar and a balladeer, Paul Clayton (1931-1967) is credited with the Top-Ten hit \"Gotta Travel On\" and was a key figure in the mid-1950s rise of folksong to media popularity. Clayton single-handedly brought hundreds of obscure folksongs to the mainstream radio and recording market, and he influenced listeners and friends from Dave Van Ronk to Bob Dylan, who considered Clayton a mentor, \"mindguard,\" and well of folksong. Paul Clayton and the Folksong Revival is the first biography of the folk singer and song collector.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUsing accounts from friends, family, and fellow musicians, author Bob Coltman relates the breadth and depth of Clayton's extraordinary life, from his birth into a singing family and his teenage years as a radio singer and folksong collector, to his establishment in New York as a folk performer and recording artist, to his tragic early suicide. Clayton's recordings are also examined, interspersed with his insights and adventures as a performer and songwriter in the folk world. Gradually, Clayton's achievements become overwhelmed by his disintegration as a drug user, failing musician, and bipolar gay man, culminating in eyewitness accounts relating to his tragic end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePresenting an in-depth look at folk music in the 1950s, Coltman illuminates what it meant to be a working, but not starring, folksinger in this period. With quotes from a number of folksongs, a discographic summary, and a bibliography, this volume brings to life this intelligent, perceptive, and largely unknown scholar-folksinger.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scarecrow Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42736845979723,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":3921.86,"currency_code":"THB","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0641\/0023\/7387\/files\/9780810861329-1.jpg?v=1783359974","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.co.th\/products\/9780810861329","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Thailand","version":"1.0","type":"link"}