Music Directors

A gentle force in folk music, Chicago musician Michael Smith is dead at 78

Long ago at a Miami coffeehouse, Chicago’s Steve Goodman sat in the back, jotting down in the darkness the words to a song being sung by the man onstage. The man was Michael Smith, the song was “The Dutchman” and it would be a recording hit for Goodman and for many others. It was just one of the hundreds

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