John McCutcheon at the Ark

A sacredness of everyday experience

by James M. Manheim

posted 4/24/2009

In a fine new John McCutcheon Live DVD recording issued by Ann Arbor’s Bamboo Concerts, the musician diverges almost immediately from his opening numbers into monologues recounting episodes in his education as a folk performer. Some are flat-out hilarious, such as the time he referred to “the late Bascom Lamar Lunsford” when that 92-year-old legend of Southern

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