Bob Gibson (musician)

Bob Gibson ( born November 16, 1931 in Brooklyn, New York, † September 28, 1996 in Portland, Oregon) was the late 1950s and early 1960s alongside Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, a particularly influential folk musicians in the United States. He sang and played banjo and 12 -string guitar own and others' songs.

Life

Following a meeting with Pete Seeger, the 22 -year-old Bob Gibson bought a banjo in 1953, quit his job and learned based textbook Seegers Banjo game in self-study.

The late 1950s, Gibson took forward to his first half-dozen folk albums and is the first artist manager Albert Grossman legend. Gibson's appearances at Chicago's Gate of Horn folk club, where he at first alone, later with Bob Hamilton Camp sat old folk standards, new interpretations and new folk standards with banjo and 12 -string guitar, promoted the folk music boom considerably.

1959 presented Gibson during the first Newport Folk Festival which was still almost completely unknown Joan Baez as unannounced surprise guest and sang along with her ​​two duets what Baez has made literally overnight a sought after Folk Star (and they animated years later, in the same way Bob Dylan driving career).

Gibson's songs and concerts, especially the Bob Camp in early 1961 -rehearsed live album At the Gate of Horn, shaped and influenced alongside Joan Baez and Judy Collins, Gordon Lightfoot, Roger McGuinn, Phil Ochs, Peter, Paul & Mary, Shel Silverstein, Simon & Garfunkel and the Kingston Trio. Your royalty payments helped Gibson, who fought in the 1960s and 1970s with alcohol and drug problems, to survive financially.

His career came in 1964-1978 because of his drug addiction to a halt. His music and his virtuoso playing the twelve string guitar were among others for Roger McGuinn, guitarist of the Byrds, but also for Gordon Lightfoot incentive to opt for this instrument and folk music.

Gibson is the author of, among others, the country hit was adapted by John D. Loudermilk song Abilene, the Simon & Garfunkel on their debut album Wednesday Morning, 3am sung You Can Tell The World and the title of John Riley of the Byrds.

The late 1970s, Gibson was able to overcome his drug addiction and finally continue his singer-songwriter career. He returned to the stage and in the studio and get it to him with the albums The Perfect High, Stops Along the Way and Makin ' a Mess (Of Commercial Success) few successes. The last album contained only songs of Gibsons friend Shel Silverstein.

Around this time, the American Carole Bender a book about his life, work and influence began jointly Bob Gibson to write. Your detailed biography yet comprehensive monograph contains autobiographical remarks by Gibson also many memories of those folk music greats, the Gibson has more or less strongly influenced. The book has contributed significantly to the rediscovery of Bob Gibson.

Gibson died on September 28, 1996 in Portland.

Discography

  • Offbeat Folksongs ( Riverside, 1956) LP
  • I Come for to Sing ( Riverside, 1957) LP
  • Carnegie Concert ( Riverside, 1957) LP
  • Folk Songs of Ohio ( Stinson Records, 1957) 10 "LP
  • There's a Meetin ' Here Tonight ( Riverside, 1958) LP
  • Ski Songs ( Elektra, 1959) LP
  • Yes I See ( Elektra, 1961) LP
  • Folk Songs of Ohio ( Stinson Records, 1963) LP
  • Where I'm Bound ( Elektra, 1964) LP
  • Bob Gibson ( Capitol, 1970) LP
  • Funky in the Country ( Legend Enterprises, 1974) LP, (2008 ) CD
  • Gibson & Camp, Homemade Music ( Mountain Railroad Records, 1978) LP, (2008 ) CD
  • The Perfect High ( Mountain Railroad Records, 1980) LP, (2008 ) CD
  • Uptown Saturday Night ( Hogeye Records, 1984) LP, (2008 ) CD
  • Best of Friends (1984, CD: Appleseed Records, 2004), with Tom Paxton and Anne Hills
  • Gibson & Camp, The Gate of Horn - Revisited! (B * G Records, 1986) cassette
  • A Child's Happy Birthday Album ( B * G Records, 1989) cassette
  • Bob Gibson 5/91 - I Hear America Singing ( snapshot Music, 1991) cassette
  • Stops Along the Way (B * G Records, 1991) cassette
  • Gibson & Camp, The Gate of Horn - Revisited! ( Folk Era Productions, 1994) CD
  • Makin 'a Mess, Bob Gibson Sings Shel Silverstein ( Asylum Records, 1995 ) CD
  • Joy, Joy! The Young and Wonderful Bob Gibson ( Riverside, 1996) CD
  • Perfect High (1998, 2008) CD
  • Where I'm Bound (Collector's Choice, 2002 Elektra LP ) CD
  • The Living Legend Years ( 2008) CD
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