[{"id":9974,"link":"https:\/\/andymay.com\/allan-block-fiddler-poet-sandal-maker\/","name":"allan-block-fiddler-poet-sandal-maker","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/andymay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Allan-Block-Andy-May-01-1.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Allan Block: Fiddler, Poet, Sandal-maker","excerpt":"Allan was a great fiddler, a fine musician, and a wonderful poet and leather craftsman. His sandal-making shop was an established part of New York City's West Village for many years. And on Saturday afternoons, it became the meeting place for one of the best Old-Time Music jam sessions in the Northeast USA.","content":"Allan on fiddle backed by Andy on guitar. Circa 1980, Massachusetts. Photo by Deborah Robson. My friend, Allan Block, was a colorful person - very much an individual. He was a great fiddler,","author":{"name":"Swift River Music","link":"https:\/\/andymay.com\/author\/laurenam\/"},"date":"Jan 12, 2015","dateGMT":"2015-01-12 21:19:43","modifiedDate":"2024-02-19 06:48:09","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-02-19 12:48:09","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/andy-may\/andys-notes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Andy's Notes \u266a\u266a\u266a<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/andy-may\/andys-notes\/friends-and-associates\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Friends and Associates<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/andy-may\/andys-notes\/music-in-ma\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Music in Massachusetts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/andy-may\/andys-notes\/music-in-ny\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Music in New York<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/recordings\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Recordings - Other<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/andy-may\/andys-notes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Andy's Notes \u266a\u266a\u266a<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/andy-may\/andys-notes\/friends-and-associates\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Friends and Associates<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/andy-may\/andys-notes\/music-in-ma\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Music in Massachusetts<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/andy-may\/andys-notes\/music-in-ny\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Music in New York<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/recordings\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Recordings - 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There were great players like Dave VanRonk appearing at venues where even an under-age guy could go. Then, there were folks like Doc Watson coming to town! I remember hearing Doc and Reverend Gary Davis jamming backstage at a hall...that was really something!","content":"I grew up loving music. The Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly...then later Mississippi John Hurt, the New Lost City Ramblers, Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, The Carter Family, Flatt and Scruggs, the Byrds","author":{"name":"Swift River Music","link":"https:\/\/andymay.com\/author\/laurenam\/"},"date":"Aug 5, 2012","dateGMT":"2012-08-05 03:33:25","modifiedDate":"2024-02-19 10:43:23","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-02-19 16:43:23","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/andy-may\/andys-notes\/a-musicians-journey\/\" rel=\"category tag\">A Musician's Journey<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/andy-may\/andys-notes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Andy's Notes \u266a\u266a\u266a<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/instruments\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Instruments<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/andy-may\/andys-notes\/music-in-ny\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Music in New York<\/a>","space":"<a 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Centrum","excerpt":"When I was a teenage musician in\u00a0NYC in the 1960s, Izzy Young was one of the\u00a0people who occupied a place pretty much in the center of the folk music world.","content":"Izzy Young Photograph by Ray Sullivan. Image Folder 124_03: Photo-Sound Associates photographs, circa 1957-1960 in the Ronald D. Cohen Collection #20239, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel","author":{"name":"Swift River Music","link":"https:\/\/andymay.com\/author\/laurenam\/"},"date":"Sep 20, 2016","dateGMT":"2016-09-20 11:42:01","modifiedDate":"2024-02-19 06:47:03","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-02-19 12:47:03","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/andy-may\/andys-notes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Andy's Notes \u266a\u266a\u266a<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/andy-may\/andys-notes\/friends-and-associates\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Friends and Associates<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/andy-may\/andys-notes\/music-in-ny\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Music in New York<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/andy-may\/andys-notes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Andy's Notes \u266a\u266a\u266a<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/andy-may\/andys-notes\/friends-and-associates\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Friends and Associates<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/andymay.com\/category\/andy-may\/andys-notes\/music-in-ny\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Music in New York<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/2016\/' rel='post_tag'>2016<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/allan-block\/' rel='post_tag'>allan block<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/american-folklife-center\/' rel='post_tag'>American Folklife Center<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/andy-may\/' rel='post_tag'>Andy May<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/bob-dylan\/' rel='post_tag'>Bob Dylan<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/brian-kramer\/' rel='post_tag'>Brian Kramer<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/carnegie-hall\/' rel='post_tag'>Carnegie Hall<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/d-28\/' rel='post_tag'>D-28<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/emmy-lou-harris\/' rel='post_tag'>Emmy Lou Harris<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/folklore-centrum\/' rel='post_tag'>Folklore Centrum<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/greenwich-village\/' rel='post_tag'>Greenwich Village<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/hootenanny\/' rel='post_tag'>Hootenanny<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/izzy-young\/' rel='post_tag'>Izzy Young<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/jerry-jeff-walker\/' rel='post_tag'>Jerry Jeff Walker<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/kenny-kosek\/' rel='post_tag'>Kenny Kosek<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/martin-guitar\/' rel='post_tag'>Martin guitar<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/mr-bojangles\/' rel='post_tag'>Mr. Bojangles<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/new-york\/' rel='post_tag'>New York<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/new-york-folklore-center\/' rel='post_tag'>New York Folklore Center<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/ny\/' rel='post_tag'>NY<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/pete-seeger\/' rel='post_tag'>Pete Seeger<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/philip-nusbaum\/' rel='post_tag'>Philip Nusbaum<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/rory-block\/' rel='post_tag'>Rory Block<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/scott-barretta\/' rel='post_tag'>Scott Barretta<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/star-spangled-string-band\/' rel='post_tag'>Star Spangled String Band<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/stockholm\/' rel='post_tag'>Stockholm<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/sweden\/' rel='post_tag'>Sweden<\/a><a href='https:\/\/andymay.com\/tag\/wbai\/' rel='post_tag'>WBAI<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":5,"sec":12},"status":"publish"},{"id":17150,"link":"https:\/\/andymay.com\/room-for-roots-in-sweden\/","name":"room-for-roots-in-sweden","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/andymay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Gamla-Stan-Waterfront.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Room for Roots Tour in Sweden","excerpt":"We arrived in Stockholm on Monday, October 3. On Tuesday, Lauren and I took the subway across town to find Izzy Young at Folklore Centrum. Folks were friendly and pointed us in the right direction to find Wallmar Yx Kullsgatan 2bv. When we arrived,  I looked through the big, glass, street-level store window, and there was Izzy - now in his late 80s, but very much the same as ever. I had not seen him in 46 years!","content":"October 3-10, 2016: Three very different gigs and some historic visiting! 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We were crazy about old-time music. We played constantly throughout high school, did a lot of live shows,appeared on radio often, and traveled to the fiddlers conventions at Galax, Virginia, and Union Grove, North Carolina.","content":"Kenny Kosek  and I became buddies in Junior High School. 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