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HOW CAN I KEEP FROM TALKING?

By : Ross Altman

Ross Altman, known as the songwriter/songfighter in Los Angeles, has a PhD in Modern Literature from SUNY-Binghamton (1973) and belongs to Local 47 (AFM). He is the president of the Santa Monica Traditional Folk Music Club and has written for FolkWorks since May, 2003.

STORYTELLER WITH A GUITAR

Published in Volume 4 Number 3 – May/June 2004
Reprinted with permission - Winter 2002 issue, vol. 15. No. 2 of Stories published by Katy Rydell.
This is Ross' final column!

By Ross Altman, Ph.D.

May 3, 2022/by FolkWorks

GOOD MORNING BLUES

Ross Altman is recovering from an injury so we are reprinting one of the Best Of.

By Ross Altman, PhD

March 1, 2022/by Ross Altman

Still No Justice For Emmett Till

"Details of Emmett Till killing still a mystery as probe ends"

By Ross Altman, PhD

December 22, 2021/by Ross Altman

STAN ROGERS: HAS IT BEEN FORTY-FIVE YEARS?

By Ross Altman, PHD

October 24, 2021/by Ross Altman

Blowing In What Wind?

Bob Dylan in Gaza

By Ross Altman

August 14, 2021/by FolkWorks

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott Turns 90

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott Turns 90 on August 1, 2021

By Ross Altman, PhD

July 1, 2021/by FolkWorks

THIS IS WARSAW:

Songs, Stories, Poems and Oral History of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

By Ross Altman, PhD

April 13, 2021/by Ross Altman

Women’s History Month: The Triangle Fire Remembered

By Ross Altman, PhD

February 16, 2021/by Ross Altman

ODE TO DEMOCRACY:

A CAUTIONARY TALE

By Ross Altman, PhD

January 25, 2021/by Ross Altman

REQUIEM FOR DEMOCRACY

In Memoriam Linda Huf, PhD

By Ross Altman, PhD

October 14, 2020/by Ross Altman

RIP TO MY FRIEND AND MY SISTER

Linda Huf, PhD (June 17, 1943—July 7, 2020)

By Ross Altman, PhD

August 27, 2020/by Ross Altman

BLACK MUSIC MATTERS

By Ross Altman, PhD

July 1, 2020/by Ross Altman

COVID-19 FOLK

By Ross Altman, PhD

May 1, 2020/by Ross Altman

AIN’T I A WOMAN TOO?

THE CENTENNIAL OF THE 19TH AMENDMENT

By Ross Altman, PhD

February 23, 2020/by Ross Altman

BALLAD OF BLACK LIKE ME—

AN AMERICAN CLASSIC REVISITED

By Ross Altman, PhD

January 1, 2020/by Ross Altman

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