Some of it was a long time ago. I remember hearing "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" on a train radio on a ride out West sometime around 1962. That was "The Highwaymen" I believe. With that and The Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul, and Mary, I found music I enjoyed singing. I had to learn to play guitar. Started on my older brother's Gibson Les Paul. I found Lomax's "Folk Songs of North America" in the library with a little guitar instruction in the Appendix. I somehow found Dick Cerri's "Music Americana" show on WAVA which just barely came in on the radio in the kitchen. I beleive it was on Sunday nights. My parents were surprisingly supportive (given that I was one of five siblings). The "family" received the reel to reel tape recorder that "I" wanted one Christmas and I started taping Music Americana. Then next Christmas, Santa brought me a Gibson classical guitar. I was a self-identified folk-singer by 1964.

I don't suppose I'll ever stop.

Big RiB