The untold story of the Weavers, the hit-making folk-pop quartet destroyed with the aid of the United States government--and who changed the world, anyway.
A journalist, disc jockey and musician, Jarnow has written an engaging account of the rise, fall, resurrection and legacy of the Weavers ... Jarnow employs an engaging, colloquial tone that captures the distinctive personalities and the intertwining voices that made up the Weavers ... Unfortunately, Jarnow’s feel for the Weavers’ music is not matched by his grasp of the left-wing political milieu from which they emerged.
Extensively researched, Jarnow’s deep and accomplished portrait of these iconic musicians reverberates with a mastery that will appeal to both fans and everyone interested in the history of music.
So much has been written about the folk band the Weavers being blacklisted from performing in the 1950s that it obscures the far more important fact that they still became one of America’s most influential music groups ... Jarnow astutely chronicles how the Weavers lost gigs, quit working as a group, and dealt with internal dissension and government persecution.
