340 The Weavers “House of the Rising Sun” 1958

The Weavers (Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Fred Hellerman) were “Like-minded musicians with progressive political views…Their voices, especially Ms. Gilbert's, were powerful, their harmonies were distinctive and their attitude was an enthusiastic embrace of the listener. Together those elements created a singalong populism that laid the groundwork for a folk-music boom in the 1950s and 1960s and its concomitant earnest strain of 1960s counterculture” (Bruce Weber, “Ronnie Gilbert,” New York Times, 6/8/15). 

The Weavers “House of the Rising Sun”