COHEN, JOHN
(*1932)
COHEN, JOHN (b. New York City, 1932) Cohen is an old-time revivalist, filmmaker, and folklorist who has discovered and recorded many fine traditional musicians. Born to a well-educated, urban family, Cohen was introduced to folk music through his older brother Mike, who was a founding member of The Shantyboys, an early FOLK-REVIVAL band in the late 1940s. He attended Yale University and then settled into the burgeoning folk music/coffeehouse scene in New York in the mid-1950s; there he met…