Long Black Wall
1990 · Fast Folk Musical Magazine FF 503 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Richard Meyer
- Title
- Long Black Wall
- Release
- Fast Folk Musical Magazine: Live at the Bottom Line 89
- Year
- 1990
- Label
- Fast Folk Musical Magazine # FF 503
- Format
- LP · Album (live)
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- Michael Jerling
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — 1968 Chicago Seven / Eight Songs
The "Long Black Wall" by Richard Meyer, a contemporary folk artist, born in 1952, and died in New York, USA on 14 May 2012, was a long-term editor of Fast Folk - this was a music magazine and record album publisher from February 1982 to 1997, a songwriter / performer cooperative. It also published many political and social contemporary songs, playing a similar role to Broadside Magazine in the 1960s. This song was a cover, composed by Michael Jerling in 1982, and released in 1983 on the LP: CooP Fast Folk Musical Magazine (Vol. 2, No. 4) - Political Song, discussed above.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Fast Folk 1989 Volume 5 No. 3, recorded at The Bottom Line, 18 February 1989; side A track 4. Richard Meyer (guitar, vocals), Lisa Gutkin (viola, violin), backing vocals Lillie Palmer, John Gorka, Josh Joffen.
About the artist
Richard Meyer (born 1952; died 14 May 2012, New York), contemporary folk singer and long-term editor of Fast Folk Musical Magazine. [Rate Your Music]
Themes
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall · Chicago Seven · Demonstration · Green Beret · Lincoln Park · Draft · Counter-Culture & Hippies · Mistreatment of Vet · GI Bill · Communism
In collections
1968 Chicago Seven / Eight Songs · Draft Songs · Veterans Memorial Wall Songs