John Herald

While John Herald's name might not be as familiar as Alan Lomax's, his work as a member of the Greenbriar Boys and as a session musician made him a prime mover and shaker on the folk scene during the '50s and early '60s. Herald was born and raised in Greenwich Village, and his vocation was pretty much chosen for him when his poet father took the young boy to parties where folk-forefathers like Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie performed live. "All of his (father's) friends were bohemians …," Herald recalled in the liner notes to Roll On John, "and here I was, somebody that was in ...