Leon Redbone: Singer-songwriter whose music and mystique beguiled even Dylan

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He used bygone eras as a treasure trove of sounds that he brought back to life in keeping with his otherworldly persona

It was Dylan who brought Redbone widespread recognition after a 1972 performance at Canada’s Mariposa Folk Festival.. He praised Redbone’s remarkable command of early musical styles, switching from ragtime to the country music of the “Singing Brakeman” Jimmie Rodgers to the jazz of Fats Waller and the blues of Robert Johnson and Blind Blake.

 

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