American musician (1936–2002)

Claude says:Dave Van Ronk was a Greenwich Village fixture who could bend folk, blues, and ragtime into something entirely his own—gruff and inventive, never precious about tradition. You've got one perfect moment with him locked in from March 2019, that raw fingerpicking voice on "Hang Me, Oh Hang Me" sitting there like a reminder of what folk music sounded like when it still had dirt under its fingernails.