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sed OBIT: Howard Finster passes 22 Oct 2001 (6) RE: OBIT: Howard Finster passes 22 Oct 2001 29 Oct 01


A friend of mine who I haven't seen for years, Mr. LaVaughn Livingston, folk and rock singer and songwriter, recorded a primitive cassette album of his and Finster's music. I have it at home somewhere and will try to find it for you. It seems like Finster was featured on an lp, too. But I don't know. Maybe Joe Hickerson would know.??? There is a Howard Finster webpage through which you may can contact his family. I think the Athens, GA Folk Music Club (source of obit info) may have access to some informal recordings of Finster. For him I believe the banjo was as much a tool of his discipleship as were any of his visual and tactile artistic tools. I'm also on LaVaughn's trail. Livingston's brother died a year ago and I noticed that the obit listed LaVaughn as living in Birmingham, AL, the place where we became friends in the 1980's. Maybe L.L. has the master recording for the Finster music. If so it would be much better than what I have, hopefully. LL's mother lives up around the homeplace in Walker/Winston County, AL.


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