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Tell you something about er doctors and things they never, ever, ever do. Any guesses on something an er doctor based on what they see in their Emergency Rooms would never do . Let you go without charging you . [laughter] thats pretty good. Its hard to top that. They never ride a bike without a helmet for example. So these are all things. I see where youre going with it. Okay. Go through the list there is a lot of them, but it really gets you thinking. They never hop on a motorcycle. They never ...

His work drew praise from the Doors and the Beatles, if not the general public.

Stories involving Bob Dylan and Brian Jones were shared following the Minnesota folk/blues music hero's death to cancer, and a memorial is in the works.

The veteran of Minneapolis' West Bank folk and blues scene inspired generations of players but stayed humble in his six-decade career.

Musician who became a folk scene celebrity with his driving guitar style and love of the blues

The vet of Minneapolis' West Bank folk/blues scene inspired several generations of players but stayed humble in his six-decade career.

Spider John Koerner, an influential Minneapolis guitarist and singer with admirers around the country, has died.

Singer-songwriter Charlie Parr is the quintessential troubadour, touring solo in a minivan, sleeping at rest stops, and singing the blues.

By 1961, Joan Baez, the dark-haired waif who had captured the spotlight at the first Newport Folk Festival just two years earlier, was folk music's virginal superstar, leading the coffeehouse culture of a new American generation. And an unknown, unwashed, Woody Guthrie—worshiping kid from the Minnesota suburbs named Bob Dylan had just arrived in Greenwich Village. In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Positively 4th Street, DAVID HAJDU recalls the prickly beginnings of the Baez...

WESTERLY — Legendary acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke, admired widely for his fingerpicking style that draws on blues, jazz and folk music, and for his syncopated, polyphonic melodies, will perform at