One sideline was scooping ice cream at a homemade shop in Vermont run by two guys named Ben and Jerry. While living in a van on Martha s Vineyard and playing in an otherwise all black soul act. Larry Long is a musician, community organizer, father, and educator. He is also the recipient of the prestigious Bush Artists Fellowship. For the past several years, he has been developing and presenting an inter-generational curriculum, mixing oral history and song writing within a traditional educational structure.
Folk music comes from the folk.
It s acoustic, electric. It s children screaming, laughing, and crying while mothers and fathers are washing clothes and dishes. Wherever folks are, there s folk music. New York might call Jenkins country, but Nashville wouldn't. One thing Jenkins does well is write songs.