A SEARCH FOR GLENN GOULD
Chapter IV from B. W. Powe's The Solitary Outlaw

When Glenn Gould died, October 14, 1982, his reviews, conversations, and polemics were scattered in magazines and journals. I myself had kept track of his writings through a clippings file. These pieces were in no particular order and were disconnected in the styles and voices Gould used to lure or offend. Even in this format, his literary work had a vital and mysterious air that made me hunger to put the gatherings into an intelligible whole. [read more]

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I first discovered this site about five years ago. Now I have rediscovered it. Yes, McGuinn is that Byrd guy. He was giving music away, on the web, in 1995.

Welcome to McGuinn's Folk Den

The purpose of this page is to use the medium of the World Wide Web to continue the tradition of the folk process, that is the telling of stories, and singing of songs, passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth.

In this electronic era, such a process is in danger of being overwhelmed by the commercial mass media. This page and others on the 'net are working to preserve the folk songs that have chronicled our global heritage for centuries.

In the Folk Den there will be a "new" folk song uploaded every month as a "Global Community Service." [read more]

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