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Milo Emerges

Hey, Milo-ites-- After the long Winter Hibernation, it's time...time for Milo to emerge, along with the bears and the locusts...Here's a few upcoming gigs, where we'd like to see you!

  • June 13th - Milo Bobbins, Playing at noon, at the Cats and Dogs Benefit, outdoors in Old Town, Mankato, near the Wine Cafe.
  • COMING this Summer: Milo Bobbins, Watch for gigs at Amazing Grace in Duluth, plus, location and date to be determined, Milo and the Budget Boys, plus Santa and more, video recording of "Santa and His Ho! Ho! Ho!"

What is Folk Music?

I got a question about my favorite artists. Well, how much time do you have? Interestingly, the first name that popped into my mind was Van Morrison. But he’s more of a "jazz-rocker,” and I’m supposed to be a "Folkie". There you have it -­- pigeon-holing everything is not necessarily productive! I mean, Dvorak could be categorized as a "folkie" -- at least in The New World Symphony, especially the sublime second movement, "Going Home," which basically just elaborates on some classic American folk tunes. And right now, I’m listening to Neil Young: "Helpless" is one of the greatest folk songs of the last forty years, in my humble opinion, and not far behind are "I Believe in You," and "After the Gold Rush." But to address the intent of the original question, here are a few of my VERY favorite artists, and I think you’d have to say they’re truly "folkies" at heart. Greg Brown has to be listened to. The combination of stories, lyrics and melodies is probably the best since Dylan. Speaking of whom, lately, I’ve been obsessing on Dylan’s “Desolation Row," listening to that magnum opus over and over. If I had to vote for the "best folk song ever," I would certainly consider Tom Paxton’s “Last Thing on My Mind," and Gordon Lightfoot’s "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." I also am in awe of Emmylou Harris and Alison Krauss, and I’ve incorporated some of their songs into my performing repertoire. NOW, to get my recommendation for TWO of the best folk albums of all time, go to the BLOG. You might be surprised.

Folk Musicians

Notable roots musicians include Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Son House, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Leadbelly, Hazel Dickens, Maggie Simpson, Mahalia Jackson, Peter, Paul and Mary, Washington Phillips, Fiddlin' John Carson (1868 - 1949), and Jean Ritchie. More recent musicians who occasionally or consistently play roots music include Keb' Mo', Ralph Stanley, John Denver, and Ricky Skaggs.

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Milo Bobbins bio…

By day, Milo Bobbins disguises himself as a Midwestern radio newsman. By night, like Clark Kent, he is transformed. All right, so I’m not Superman. But sometimes, you do get lucky. I’d been writing songs for a long time, when, in 1992, Dr. Demento began playing one of the sillier songs I ever wrote, “Condoms for Christmas”, around the holiday season. The song went all the way to the top of Demento’s funny forty, beaten out only by Weird Al Yankovic and the legendary Stan Freberg. Pretty good company. Then a couple years later, legendary film director Joe Esterhasz heard the song, and put it in his movie, “Burn, Hollywood, Burn”. While a disappointment, that movie did allow Milo’s music to travel around the world, and to fund a couple of CD’s, the first of which is out of print. Milo appears several times a year at local coffee houses. Not content with who he was, Milo also adopted a second pseudonym, Walt Blick, whose guest columns will occasionally appear in the blog, “Mad Monk of the Midlands.” Blick wrote for a time for the now-defunct regional magazine, STATIC.

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