Mick Kinney: A Song in His Heart and a Pencil in His Hand, Part 1

January 10, 2013 · by Christina Kaylor | in Author Interviews, Poets/ Poetry/ Performances, The Writing Life | tagged Alabama Folk School, Elise Witt, fiddle, John C. Campbell Folk School, Mick Kinney, music teacher, Old Time Music, poetry, songwriting, Swannanoa Gathering, The Georgia Crackers, The Great American Songbook | 6 Comments

What do Homer, the scop of Beowulf, Bob Dylan, and John Lennon have in common with Mick Kinney? That’s right, they’re all singer songwriters. Wait, you say. First, The Iliad, The Odyssey, and Beowulf are great epic poems, not songs. Their authors are poets, not songwriters. Except…in the olden days, literature was an oral tradition. Homer […]