Music Blog (Martha-Bryan's Version)

MB: I'm here with Kay Miller, AKA Granna.  Granna: Martha Kay Miller.  MB: It's true - you gave me my Martha. [laughing]  Granna: We're the Marthas.  MB: Okay. So, to start, do you have an earliest memory of music?  Granna: Well... I guess my earliest memory is just banging on the piano, you know, and just thinking that I could just make music come out of it without any training... And then Sunday school after that. That's where I learned how to hold a note.  MB: About how old were you during that time-- from banging on the piano and into Sunday school? Granna: Probably two or three, and then my first, earliest memory of Sunday school was probably about three or four. I loved to sing. Wasn't great at it but I loved it. [laughing]  (…)  MB: What was your favorite type of music growing up?  Granna: Just silly children's songs, if you want the very beginning… But, believe it or not, at about the age of ten, I fell in love with musicals. I didn'...

 It was on July, 25th, 1965 that music changed - forever.  As the iconic folk singer Bob Dylan walked out onto the stage of the Rhode Island Newport Folk Festival, he carried with him not the familiar sight of an acoustic guitar, but an electric.  The crowd, full of *folk purists and nonconformists alike, shifted in every way imaginable - booing, cheering, dancing,  completely still.  It's often said of the crowd that, on that night, Dylan, "electrified one half, and electrocuted the other."  While a man on stage with an electric guitar might not sound very revolutionary to us, it was to the people of the 1960s, as this is the moment many credit with solidifying the new genre of folk rock.  Let's talk background info -  During the 60s, folk music, which had taken a beating during the Second Red Scare for its more "liberal" views, made a big comeback in America. This comeback, aptly named the American folk music revival, led to all the folk music ...