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Early folkie Mary Travers dies at 72, leaving Peter, Paul & Puff

2:15 AM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 |
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At the Peter Paul & Mary Website tonight,

Mary Travers passed away today. After successful recovery from leukemia through a bone marrow/stem cell transplant, Mary succumbed to the side effects of one of the chemotherapy treatments.

We all loved her deeply and will miss her beyond words.

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Peter Paul & Mary cover Bob Dylan's Too Much Of Nothing. March 23, 1969 on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

It's feeling crowded again this week at the pearly gates. Jim Carroll, Patrick Swayze, now Mary... Parents who hated Dylan and Joan Baez liked Mary (they weren't too sure about the bearded guys with her, though).

Times: Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary Dies at 72, with accompanying slideshow.

Mary Travers, whose ringing, earnest vocals with the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary made songs like "Blowin' in the Wind," "If I Had a Hammer" and "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" enduring anthems of the 1960s protest movement, died on Wednesday at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut. She was 72 and lived in Redding, Conn.

Ms. Travers brought a powerful voice and an unfeigned urgency to music that resonated with mainstream listeners. With her straight blond hair and willowy figure and two bearded guitar players by her side, she looked exactly like what she was, a Greenwich Villager directly from the clubs and the coffeehouses that nourished the folk-music revival.

"She was obviously the sex appeal of that group, and that group was the sex appeal of the movement," said Elijah Wald, a folk-blues musician and a historian of popular music.



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