Richard Dyer-Bennet

In the 1940s and '50s, Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991) was among the best known and most respected folk singers in America. Paul O. Jenkins tells, for the first time, the story of Dyer-Bennet, often referred to as the "Twentieth-Century Minstrel". He argues Dyer-Bennet helped pave the way for the folk boom of the mid-1950s and early 1960s.