Jack Hardy (singer-songwriter)

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Jack Studebaker Hardy is a singer-songwriter and playwright who has been influential in the Greenwich Village folk music scene for decades. He has been cited as a major influence by Suzanne Vega and many others who emerged from that scene in the 1980s. He was also the founder of the Songwriters' Exchange at the Cornelia Street Cafe and was the first editor of Fast Folk Musical Magazine. Hardy is a graduate of the Pomfret School in Connecticut.

While his name has never achieved the level of renown of many of his adherent followers (e.g. John Gorka, David Wilcox and The Roches). He has continued to build on his substantial catalog of literate, well-crafted songs for several decades.

[edit] Discography

• Jack Hardy (1971)
• Early and Rare (1965-1974, vol. 1 of The Collected Works of Jack Hardy)
• Mirror of My Madness (1976)
• The Nameless One (1978)
• Landmark (1982)
• White Shoes (1982)
• The Cauldron (1984)
• The Hunter (1987)
• Retrospective (1990)
• Through (1991)
• Two of Swords (1992)
• Civil Wars (1994)
• Songs of Jack Hardy, Volume One: Of the White Goddess (1995)
• The Passing (1997)
• Omens (2000)
• Bandolier (2002)
• Coin of the Realm: Songs for the New American Century (2004)
• The Tinker's Coin - Celtic Anthology (2005)

[edit] External links

• Jack Hardy website, maintained by Ron Mura.
• Jack Hardy at the All Music Guide
• "Keeper of Village's Folk Tradition Battles Eviction" by Susan Saulny, New York Times, November 2, 2000