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Had the experience as an employee for the Edmonton folk festival..1980 to 84..of having attending the after concert restaurant experience with Dave van Ronk...I learned to fingerpick the ENTERTAINER....to the distane of my guitarmaking teacher..and Mr Ronk was amazing...able to play..the Entertainer..3 sheets to the wind..he was under the cups..drunk as a popcorn fart...sufferin genius...so sad..and I became an award winning master luthier in a communist kanada...weep for me... Need a handmade violin or viola...cheap ucd..useless Canadian dollarz...Dave was a pregenatur of Mr. Tom Waits..yup

I last saw Dave in NYC in 2000 at the Bottom Line in NYC. A year later I went back there to see if he was on the bill in the near future. All I saw was a poster on the wall soliciting donations for his medical expenses. Two months later he was gone. There was a wonderful tribute concert in 2003. Every folkie of note showed up (except for Mr. Bob), sang a single song and left.

This is SO WONDERFUL!

The best.

To real to become a superstar, but real enough to be a hero. Thank you.

I saw Dave at the Yellow Door in Montreal in 1973 or 1974. We were at the front table, practically in his lap, drinking quarts of 50. I had grown up on Dave's songs, knew the words to every song on every one of his albums. The drunker we got, the more obnoxious we got, shouting requests, singing along. You could tell Dave was half pissed at us for taking over his show, and half pleased that he had fans as ardent as us up in the frozen north. I don't know how the Yellow Door folk didn't throw us out. Eventually Dave just looked at us and said "shut up", and we did. That was the closest I ever got to true heroic superstardom in my life.

hey Dave, may god bless you today

Wow, great gig. I have a lot more appreciation for Dave after listening to this. Thanks for posting. Also interesting right hand technique, where he keeps his pinky and ring finger braced on the soundboard and only uses p i m to pick.

The Mayor of MacDougal Street. Legend.

It just makes me happy to see him sitting in there. :)

I love DVR, but that abrupt ending really punctuated the thought of getting an urge for going! Anti-climactic as hell.

Same

Clever, "feel more like a rumor", lol

Absolutely fucking crazy that this footage exists. It's so achingly intimate.

UK has no Independence Day!!!

This is a great song to sing anyway. Looks like good old UK though

At first I thought it was the Van M tune from 1972

A part of me died when Dave Van Ronk died. He was a bright shining star.

What a lucky little group. I hope there were some children in the audience.

Saw Dave around ‘86 in Black Mountain NC. Small room maybe an audience of 15. Dave asked for requests and received none. I being totally in awe, tongue tied could only blurt out “red light green light”. Dave never batted an eye and played Candy Man. I will always regret that I never let him know how much his music meant to me.

I remember going to a concert of his in a club in Cambridge MA and he was playing so close to me that it was as if he was sitting at my table. What a treat! I had been listening to him since I was a kid listening to a record player in my basement. He was the best and I listened to that record a zillion times. The sound of his songs is in the sound track of my life.

Maravilha!

Brilliant!!!💙

Missing him so much.

me and Speedy were sailing his hobie cat in a hurricane, and down the beach comes Dave Van Ronk

I love the Spoonful's Sporting life version-this seems close-did they lift his arrangement here?

A young aspiring folk musician who later styled himself Bob Dylan was a friend and fan of DVR. Easy to see why.

This is gold8

Gold!

Thank you for so much for giving and now so we have some cops so this is Brett that’s how you do it

Brent no school thank you for coming manic and vagina

Wow! What a gem this recording is.............

Imagine if this man was your grandpa.

Can never get enough of DVR

Thanks for making this available.

Cut my teeth on DVR tracks

Wow what an great find! I was just watching Nic Jones, and this popped up as the next recommended track

hehehehe... insanity this has only 9,500 views. This is FOLK MUSIC PORN right here

You lucky people

Green Green Rocky Road 1:06 Sporting Life Blues 4:45 Did You Hear John Hurt? 11:00 Sunday Street 14:26 Blood Red Moon 17:30 God Bless the Child 21:34 Somebody Else, Not Me 28:01 Mamie's Blues 32:26 Candy Man 36:41 Urge for Going 41:55

Kings land school Stanley Wakefield

I had the opportunity to see Dave live at the old Quiet Knight on Belmont Street in Chicago, winter of 70-71. He loved telling stories and airing his complaints in a humorous way. He told the story of having spent a great deal of time and effort learning a particular ragtime number, only to find everyone else was playing it. So he decided to write a rag so difficult and complicated to play no one could copy it, and so he did. "Trouble was," he said, "It was so difficult even I couldn't play it...so I wrote some verses so I could sing over my playing mistakes. The song was Maxwells' Cafe. He was sitting alone at the bar and I stood him a drink - he talked my ear off for twenty minutes. In an era of "individualists" he truly went his own way. Thank you for this posting.

Thanks for posting this. This guy is a legend

Man this is a gem, thanks for sharing!

Thanks for posting. What a time and place to be in.

Oh so great,missed Dave by a couple of years ,remember the bells then back t the Phoenix, nice people ,good times.