From The New York Times:
Jack Hardy, a folk singer and folk music promoter whose Greenwich Village recordings and songwriting workshops kept alive the neighborhood tradition of counterculture troubadours, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 63.
The cause was complications of lung cancer, his son, Malcolm, said.
Mr. Hardy wrote hundreds of songs — protest songs, political talking songs and romantic ballads — his lyrics often consciously literary, his music tinged with a Celtic sound. With a singing voice raspy and yearning, he performed in clubs and coffeehouses in New York and elsewhere and recorded more than a dozen albums, many of them self-produced, though two boxed sets of his work were released by a small, independent label in 2000.
“I’m undoubtedly the least famous person with a boxed set,” he boasted in an interview that year.
• Jack Hardy: http://jackhardy.com
[Photo: Laura Pietra]
