Title: Proof that a white man -can- sing the blues.
Product review: There have been earlier white blues singers, (mostly those percieved as country performers), but Van Ronk was the first guy clearly known to the baby-boomers as an unaffected bluesman. White bluesmen tend to credit black artists as their 'roots', but Van ronk definitely had a strong influence on many of them; A/B a Van Ronk track and Bob Hite singing with Canned Heat to hear an obvious similarity.
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