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By: Luckyoldsun

Luckyoldsun — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:33:46 +0000

Arlene–
Two great artists whom I was not thinking of, but Belafonte seems to have retired from music performing and become engaged exclusively as a social commentator/activist; Seeger also seems to be retired from performing, save for some occasional appearances at tribute events.

Jonno–
I named the only two mainstream singing stars of that era that I can think of who are still recording and putting out albums and maintaining active touring schedules. True, I did not mention Ralph Stanley and two other artists whom I never heard of and I thank you for your vigilance in calling me out on this ghastly infraction.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:46:03 +0000

Pete Seeger, yep. And Ralph Stanley. And Curly Seckler. And Jesse McReynolds. And more that I’m just not thinking of off the top of my head. Whatever point luckyoldsun was trying to make, she didn’t do it very well.

By: Arlene

Arlene — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:21:15 +0000

@LuckyOldSun: And Pete Seeger, as well as Harry Belafonte, both of whom also recorded for Columbia Records. I don’t know that the latter performs much anymore but the Newport Folk Festival ain’t over ’til Pete Seeger sings…

By: Luckyoldsun

Luckyoldsun — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:00:12 +0000

Ray Price and Tony Bennett may be the last of the WWII era singers (and vets) to still be knocking ‘em out. They were also labelmates on Columbia Records.

By: Kelly D.

Kelly D. — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:16:56 +0000

Man, I love the Whiskey Shivers. Caught them in Austin about a year ago, and they tear the stage up.

Oh, I’m glad that Price and Shelton seem to be over Shelton’s comments, because I happen to think it’s been much ado about nothing since the news broke. We love Shelton when he’s twitter-bashing PETA, but we hate him when he gets a bit brazen about country music. Kinda senseless to me.