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Thread #10383   Message #735798
Posted By: GUEST,Foe
24-Jun-02 - 12:29 PM
Thread Name: Favourite Performances You Were Lucky to See
Subject: RE: Favourite Performances You Were Lucky to See
In the early 60s in Tucson, AZ, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee gave a concert at the U of AZ. Afterward some of us ended up at a friends house where the parents had invited Sonny and Brownie over and we sat on the floor in the living room and listened to them play for hours. The house where I lived with some other students had a reputation as a stopping place for various loose types traveling east or west. Jeff Muldair sat on the sofa one night and played and sang "Memphis". Prior to that, about 1961 my brother's college roommate was going to Yale grad school and we went up from Brooklyn to a folk concert. The next day we went out to the "closed for the season hotel" on the ocean where all the folkies were staying and spend the day wandering around and listening to little groups of people jamming. A chubby Dylan with his hat like on his first album was playing on the edges of a bluegrass jam and Rev Gary Davis sat on a step just playing. Judy Collins, a friend of my brother's from U of Colorado, told us not to tell but she thought she had her first recording contract with Electra. I don't remember who all else was there but it was the Washington Square folkies having a good time. It's quite a memory being around all those people for a day.