Folk Music

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30681, 22 February 1965, Page 12

Folk Music

Sir,—Many will look forward to the University of Canter bury Folk Music Club’s scheduled concert; but surely the club did not pen the publicity notes in Thursday’s issue. Factual slips concerning the culturally renowned would merit correction, no less concerning folk artists, The notes mention “the young Chicagoan, Bob Dillon.” In fact, Bob Dylan hails from a small mining town, Hibbing. Minnesota. The parochial community’s stagnation sent him to New York. The joll of urban life's thrusting, as sembly-line impersonality, its Babbittry, violence, phony cul ture, plushiness beside poverty—these spurred his protest. Unlike the smoott techniques of city foil groups, his voice—hard, nasa —and his songs—untutorec grammar, unsubtle, caustii lyrics shows his country ori gin. Regarding the mis-spell ing, Dillon is the surname oi the United States Treasury secretary, big in the class damned in songs like “The Times they are a-Changin’ ”1 —Yours, etc., B.C. February 20, 1965.