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The Daily Show With A Harmonica

By Kleinheider Posted on June 25, 2008 at 3:13 pm

Green Party candidate Chris Lugo for U.S. Senate will be having a fundraiser this Saturday. You can see the details here. Personally, I’ve having a little trouble with the entertainment description:

On Saturday June 28th, Tom Neilson an award winning folk musician will do a benefit performance for Green Party candidates Christopher Lugo, U.S. Senate candidate, and John Miglietta, U.S. House candidate 5th district. Neilson has been described as the Jon Stewart of folk music.

What does that mean exactly? Does he tell jokes in between his songs? Does he perform an irreverent form of folk music, a satirical form which send up the whole genre? I don’t get it.

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3 Responses to “The Daily Show With A Harmonica”

  1. Sharon Cobb writes
    June 25th, 2008 4:57 pm

    John Stewart, who died in January, was a significant folk artist in the 60s, including a stint in the Kingston Trio.

    I’m thinking his biggest pop commercial success was as the writer of ‘Daydream Believer,’ hits for The Monkees and Anne Murray, but he was a folk artist great.

    I’m guessing the press release is comparing Neilson to John Stewart since they mention folk music, which was John Stewart’s thing, and the person who wrote the press release has never done a day of research and gets all his/her news from ‘The Daily Show,’ and thinks the only way to spell “John” is “Jon.”

  2. GoldnI writes
    June 25th, 2008 5:37 pm

    But if that were the case, then wouldn’t saying that someone is the “John Stewart of folk music” be redundant?

  3. Sharon Cobb writes
    June 25th, 2008 6:55 pm

    Yes. Yes it would.

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