Rufus Wainwright Returns to His Family's Folk Roots—with the Help of Some Friends

We talked to singer/songwriter RufusWainwright about his new album 'Folkocracy.'

again, loosely based on the life of Dave Van Ronk. And it really seems to capture that ’60s Greenwich Village folk scene.: I have never seen it. But it’s funny—I used to know Dave Van Ronk! My mom was good friends with him, and we used to sing a lot with him, growing up in the ’80s. He used to hang out at the bar in Saratoga, at Lena Spencer’s cafe.

: No, my mother was the one to recount her experiences and stuff, and she was the one who loved to tell me about hanging out with Pete Seeger, or hanging out with Bob Dylan and really being part of the whole scene. So I heard those great stories a lot. I mean, we grew up basically hanging out a lot with Emmylou Harris, so you’d hear all the Gram Parsons stories, and Linda Ronstadt would come around.

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