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KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Folk Music with Rolf Cahn: Jo Mapes in Concert at San Francisco State College, Spring 1955

Analog Audio

Event Type
Music
Origin
KPFA
Identifier
FM.1962.12.17
Program Series
Folk Music with Rolf Cahn
Program Length
44 min
Dates
1962-12-17 | broadcast
| 402 | created
Description
From a December 17, 1962 broadcast, Rolf Cahn presents a selection of Folk and Blues music by Jo Mapes, Reverend Gary Davis, and Mike Russo. The majority of the program is devoted to music by Jo Mapes, recorded at the San Francisco State College in the Spring of 1955, and eventually released on a LP from Bay Concerts. Jo Mapes was a classmate of Odetta, and an inspiration for Joan Baez, and yet despite her superior guitar playing, intuitive phrasing, and sweet voice, she never had quite the same amount of success as her better known contemporaries. A regular on the folk scene in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York in the 1950s, Mapes was also a frequent guest on the Hootenanny television show, and continues to play and sing today. In this program she performs a number of songs that, while then new to many in the audience, have since become standards on the Folk music circuit, including “Delia’s Gone”, and “Alberta Let Your Hair Hang Low.” This is your opportunity to listen to the voice that convinced Joan Baez to start singing folk songs.
Genres
Folk music
Musical Selections
Every Night When the Sun Goes In (2:45) -- Little Moses (2:20) -- My Dog Blue (2:00) -- Blow Ye Winds Southerly (2:31) -- Delia (3:12) -- Rake and a Rambling Boy (1:43) -- Sissi's in the Bond (1:20) -- Alberta Let Your Hair Hang Low (2:16) -- Amazing Grace (2:12) -- [unidentified blues guitar] (3:17) / Rev. Gary Davis -- Cry For Me (2:40)
Performers
Jo Mapes, guitar and vocals (all but last two songs)
Rolf Cahn, guitar and vocals (Delia)
Rev. Gary Davis, guitar (unidentified)
Mike Russo, guitar and vocals (Cry)
Subjects
Folk music
Folk music, English
Ballads, English
Blues (Music)
Acknowledgment
Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Related places
Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
Cahn, Rolf
Mapes, Jo
Davis, Gary, 1896-1972
Russo, Mike