Song and Poetry Tributes
- Bob Gibson & Shel Silverstein. (revered folk singer Bob Gibson, and his equally well known writing partner Shel Silverstein - both disciples of White), in 1979, wrote and recorded a song tribute, "Heavenly Choir", to three of their most beloved artists, Josh White, Hank Williams and Janis Joplin....all brilliant artists, who had lived hard, fought hard, and died young. (the first verse is to White, followed by the chorus).
- Peter Yarrow: After White's funeral, one of his protégés, Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary, eulogized him in the song "Goodbye Josh", which he included on his first solo album Peter.
- Fellow South Carolina native Jack Williams wrote and recorded "A Natural Man", a tribute to White, on his Walkin' Dreams album in 2002.
- Poet and historian Dr Leatrice Emeruwa published the poem "Josh White is Dead" in 1970.
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Famous quotes containing the words song, poetry and/or tributes:
“Do you hear the wind? It’s not dying,
It’s singing, weaving a song about the president saluting the trust,
The past in each of us....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“I cannot say what poetry is; I know that our sufferings and our concentrated joy, our states of plunging far and dark and turning to come back to the world—so that the moment of intense turning seems still and universal—all are here, in a music like the music of our time, like the hero and like the anonymous forgotten; and there is an exchange here in which our lives are met, and created.”
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“The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.”
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