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Rod MacDonald (born on August 17, 1948 in Southington, Connecticut) is an American folk singer/songwriter. His songs have been covered by Dave Van Ronk, Christine Lavin, Four Bitchin' Babes and Garnet Rogers, to name a few. He attended the University of Virginia (graduating in 1970 with a degree in history) and Columbia Law School, but during his final year in law school, decided to pursue a career in music after graduating in 1973.
He was a major part of the 1980s Greenwich Village folk renaissance, performing at clubs such as Speakeasy, The Bottom Line, Folk City, and the Songwriter's Exchange, a regular event at the Cornelia Street Cafe for many years. He co-founded the Greenwich Village Folk Festival. He is perhaps best known for his signature song, "American Jerusalem", about the "contrast between the rich and the poor in Manhattan" (Sing Out!), "Sailor's Prayer", "Coming of the Snow" and "Every Living Thing".
Rod has performed publicly for more than 35 years, and released 9 albums in the U.S. and Europe. He is considered a folk singer although his music transcends the typical folk genre, straying into rock, pop, country, light jazz, and blues. Regarded as a prolific songwriter and a gifted singer, his music embraces his obvious passion and personal commitment to communicating political and social events that effect and shape our world's societies. In recent years he has been an instructor for Florida Atlantic University (Lifelong Learning Center), conducting a lecture and performance series.
Discography- No Commercial Traffic (1983)
- White Buffalo (1985)
- And Then He Woke Up
- Highway to Nowhere (1992)
- Man on the Ledge (1994)
- Into the Blue (1999)
- Recognition (2002)
- Big Brass Bed (2003) (an album of Bob Dylan covers)
- A Tale of Two Americas (2005)
- After The War (2009)
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