Susan Reed obituary

American singer and actor at the forefront of the folk music revival who was blacklisted as a communist sympathiserSusan Reed, who has died aged 84, was a singer in New York in the early days of the American folk scene, achieving national success more than a decade before the folk-music craze brought singers such as Peter, Paul and Mary and Joan Baez into the pop charts. By that time, Reed was suffering from the effect of blacklisting under McCarthyism, and her career never recovered. She thus ...

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