Si Kahn - Courage
  • Otis Is Flying
  • Abe Lincoln Walks Tonight
  • Stones in the Furrow
  • Peace Will Rise
  • Molly Maguire
  • Shoulders
  • On This Old Farm
  • Custodian
  • Ireland of My Dreams
  • Hutto
  • Going Up the Mountain
  • Playing the Old Songs
  • Hunter
  • Washington Square
Biography
Legendary folk writer and reviewer Scott Alarik says about Si Kahn: By the unique, timeless, grassrootsy measures with which great folk songs have always been judged, it can be argued that he is the most successful folk songwriter of his generation...His songs have been recorded by over 100 artists, including some of the most respected voices in folk music today: June Tabor and the Oyster Band, Robin and Linda Williams, Dick Gaughan, John McCutcheon, Laurie Lewis, Irish singing legend Dolores Keane, and Celtic groups Planxty, the Fureys, and Patrick Street.

But the real impact his songs have had since he started writing them around 1970 is impossible to estimate, because they have had such vibrant lives beyond his or the music industry’s view. His best songs, such as Aragon Mill, Gone Gonna Rise Again, and Wild Rose of the Mountain, have been sung in Dutch and Welsh and Swedish, converted to suit local circumstances to such an extent that they are now believed to be part of local traditional repertoires.
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  • Members:
    Si Kahn with Jens Krüger and Kathy Mattea
  • Sounds Like:
    While he's been compared to Woodie Guthrie, Utah Philips, Pete Seeger and Tom Paxton, he really doesn't sound anything like any of them. Si would most like to sound like Frank Sinatra playing gambler Nathan Detroit in "Guys and Dolls".
  • Influences:
    Ancient Hebrew poets who created the Jewish liturgy; the Irish poet William Butler Yeats; Frank Loesser, who wrote the songs for the musical "Guys and Dolls"; folk artists Aunt Molly Jackson, Sara Ogan Gunning, Utah Philips and Leadbelly; and Pete Seeger.
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    04/20/10
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