***GEORGE “SMOKE” DAWSON played banjo in MacGrundy’s Old-Timey Wool Thumpers with Peter Stampfel (later of Holy Modal Rounders) in 1960, lived for years at Cafe Lena in Saratoga Springs, NY, and roamed around the US as an itinerant bagpipe and fiddle player for decades. His life is laced with small triumphs and lots of tragedy. But he’s still with us. Tompkins Square reissues his only album, a remarkable 1971 private press LP, called Fiddle.
LP $17.50
08/26/2014
CD $9.95
08/26/2014