Artist's albums
Into the Blue - European Edition
1999 · album
And Then He Woke Up - European Edition
1996 · album
The Man On The Ledge
1994 · album
Highway To Nowhere
1992 · album
White Buffalo - European Edition
1991 · album
Rants And Romance
2023 · album
Cry Freedom
2022 · single
Smallpox
2022 · single
Here's A Pretty Girl
2021 · single
Boulevard
2020 · album
The King
2020 · single
Boulevard
2020 · single
Beginning Again
2018 · album
Into the Blue
2016 · album
White Buffalo
2014 · album
Later That Night
2014 · album
No Commercial Traffic
2014 · album
The Last American Worker
2012 · single
Songs Of Freedom
2011 · album
After The War
2009 · album
This One - European Edition
2008 · album
A Tale Of Two Americas
2005 · album
Recognition - European Edition
2002 · album
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Biography
Singer/songwriter Rod MacDonald was a big part of the 1980s folk revival in Greenwich Village clubs. After graduating from Columbia Law School and joining the staff of Newsweek, MacDonald elected to become a folksinger in the 1970s. Via the Fast Folk Music Cooperative, MacDonald and others like Richard Meyer, Christine Lavin, and Michael Jerling were an important part of the rebirth of the folk scene in New York in the 1980s. While MacDonald wasn't exactly a new face to New York folk music fans, he began to gain national stature in the early '90s, performing at folk festivals and coffeehouses around the U.S., Canada, and Europe. MacDonald's songwriting influences include Phil Ochs, Richard Fariña, and Bob Dylan. True to the folk tradition, MacDonald is not afraid to get political, take chances, and perhaps shock some people. Songs like "American Jerusalem," "White Buffalo," and "Every Living Thing" have been covered by his peers and his elders, including musicians Garnet Rogers, Jean Redpath, Gordon Bok, Happy Traum, and Shawn Colvin. MacDonald's place in the folk hall of fame is assured by his "A Sailor's Prayer," a hymn-styled tune that many people have mistaken for a traditional song. MacDonald issued a pair of albums in the 1980s, No Commercial Traffic in 1983 and White Buffalo in 1985, and two albums by the singer/songwriter appeared on Shanachie Records during the following decade, 1992's Highway to Nowhere and 1994's The Man on the Ledge. And Then He Woke Up and Into the Blue appeared on Gadfly in 1996 and 1999, respectively, and during the new millennium his recordings have included 2002's Recognition, 2005's A Tale of Two Americas, 2009's After the War, and 2011's Songs of Freedom. Rod MacDonald has been based in Florida since the mid-'90s. ~ Richard Skelly, Rovi