Andy Cohen "Road Be Kind"
  • Five And Ten Cent Blues
  • Seldom Seen Slim
  • Spread The News Around
  • Road Be Kind
  • Windy And Warm
  • More Wood
  • High Country Caravan (Song For Stephen Stills)
  • Mysterious Mose
  • Fort Sumner Dance
  • Seaboard Train
  • Talkin' Hard Luck
  • Ten And Nine
  • Blarney Pilgrim/Jig McCoy medley
  • John Ate The Locust And The Honey
  • Blackbird
  • The Goodnight-Loving Trail
  • Five And Ten Cent Blues
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (02:06) [4.82 MB]
  • Seldom Seen Slim
    Genre: Folklore
    MP3 (02:06) [4.81 MB]
  • Spread The News Around
    Genre: Folklore
    MP3 (02:30) [5.72 MB]
  • Road Be Kind
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (02:45) [6.3 MB]
  • Windy And Warm
    Genre: Americana
    MP3 (03:01) [6.9 MB]
  • More Wood
    Genre: Folklore
    MP3 (03:16) [7.48 MB]
  • High Country Caravan (Song For Stephen Stills)
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (05:54) [13.52 MB]
  • Mysterious Mose
    Genre: Folklore
    MP3 (02:21) [5.39 MB]
  • Fort Sumner Dance
    Genre: National Folk
    MP3 (02:39) [6.07 MB]
  • Seaboard Train
    Genre: Country Blues
    MP3 (04:22) [9.98 MB]
  • Talkin' Hard Luck
    Genre: Folklore
    MP3 (06:57) [15.91 MB]
  • Ten And Nine
    Genre: Folklore
    MP3 (03:18) [7.54 MB]
  • Blarney Pilgrim/Jig McCoy medley
    Genre: World Music
    MP3 (03:59) [9.1 MB]
  • John Ate The Locust And The Honey
    Genre: Folklore
    MP3 (03:17) [7.53 MB]
  • Blackbird
    Genre: Acoustic
    MP3 (02:32) [5.81 MB]
  • The Goodnight-Loving Trail
    Genre: Folklore
    MP3 (04:38) [10.61 MB]
Biography
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Andy Cohen is a virtuoso finger-style guitarist who has been described as “a walking, talking folk-blues-roots music encyclopedia.” He grew up in a home with a piano and lots of Dixieland Jazz records. During the Sixties Folk Revival, he got hooked on the music of Big Bill Broonzy and the Jim Kweskin Jug Band. When Andy was 16, he heard South Carolina’s Rev. Gary Davis perform and the effect on him was profound. He has devoted his life to studying, performing, and promoting traditional blues and folk music of the pre-World War II era. Andy has toured solo, as well as with Martin, Bogan and Armstrong, John Jackson, Rev. Gary Davis, Brother Daniel Womack, Rev. Dan Smith, Jim Brewer, and Honeyboy Edwards. He also worked extensively with Walt and Ethel Phelps, Big Joe Duskin, Pigmeat Jarrett, Etta Baker, Big Boy Henry, and James "Son" Thomas.

Andy has helped to support a number of his mentors and younger players by organizing festivals and other venues for them to play in. He has written about several of the old masters and studied their work in a systematic way. Many of his students are now professional touring musicians. The Country Blues says, “One thing is for sure, the boy can play. There are few people around today who had a chance to pick it all up from the old generations, get this good at it and continue to cherish and preserve the old traditions.” He has been assiduous in sharing his expertise in classes, camps, and anywhere people are making music .

Andy Cohen has more than a dozen recordings to his credit, including Oh Glory, How Happy I Am: The Sacred Songs of Rev. Gary Davis and Andrew M. Cohen: Dolceola Favorites. An enthusiastic proponent of the dolceola, Andy says he “never leaves home without it.” Described by some as a “miniature piano,” the dolceola has a keyboard, but the strings are struck with wooden mallets.

Along the way, Andy earned a Master’s Degree in anthropology. His passions come together in his essay on “The Hands of Blues Guitarists,” published in Ramblin’ On My Mind: New Perspectives On the Blues, edited by David Evans (2008).

At an Andy Cohen concert, expect to hear blues rooted in Mississippi, the Piedmont, Memphis, and Chicago, as well as some ragtime, gospel, and original tunes.

In 2011 Andy received the Eisteddfod Award from The Eisteddfod Traditional Music Festival. Festival Director Dr. Jerome Epstein said, “We decided to give the award to Andy, one of this year’s performers, because of his outstanding contributions to the field of traditional music, as performer, collector, and advocate.” In 2012 Andy received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the California Autoharp Gathering.
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  • Members:
    Andy Cohen
  • Sounds Like:
    Rev. Gary Davis, Big Bill Broonzy, Roy Bookbinder
  • Influences:
    Jim Brewer, Rev. Gary Davis, Big Bill Broonzy, Firehouse Five Plus Two, Woody Guthrie, Meade Lux Lewis
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    01/04/17
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