Little known '60s Folk Singers

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: Peace
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 02:55 PM

Did they play some basket houses in the Village?

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: Mark Ross
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 03:15 PM

I think Tom & Jerry went on to become Simon & Garfunkel.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: Peace
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 03:20 PM

LOL

Yeah, thanks Mark. So who were the two guys who did a duet, both sang and played guitar? Y'ad see 'em often in the ZigZag. One of the fellows ended up getting a letter from his Uncle and he went to SE Asia. Don't know about the other guy. They were really good. Great harmonies and clean flat picking. Ring any bells with you?

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: balladeer
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 05:49 PM

So the Tom and Jerry thing was a joke - right? I imagine everyone taking part in this thread knows that tidbit from the earlier history of Simon and Garfunkle.

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: Peace
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 05:56 PM

Not me. I thought it was the two guys I'm asking Mark about, not Simon and Garfunkel.

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: balladeer
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 06:02 PM

Sorry, Peace, I thought you were just carrying on the joke. Sometimes it's hard to know for sure without those smiley faces.

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 11:56 AM

How about Judy Mayhan? The Sorry Muthas? Keith Sykes? George Gerdes?

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Erik Frandsen
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 05:17 PM

George Gerdes has lived in LA for many years, acting and still writing great songs. When he hits town we get together and drink. For a change.

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST,celticblues5
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 09:46 PM

Just discovered this thread & started reading through it with a notepad in my hand. :-)

Sure wish more folks would add a little blurb about the type of music each person makes/made, rather than just listing a dozen or so names!

With so many names, there's no way one could try to hunt down albums from every one. It would be helpful to be able to start with those who work in a genre/style I'm more certain that I would enjoy.

I don't know if he was playing as early as the 60s, but in the 70s in Kansas City we loved going to see Danny Cox - blues/folkblues. We always thought he should have had more recognition.

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: mrmoe
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 10:12 PM

.....and let's not forget Julius Lester.....

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 10:09 AM

How about Danny Farmer, Sean Gagnier, Ronney Abramson, Rings & Things?

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: Duke
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 10:25 AM

Thanks, Balladeer! You brought back some more memories with your list. I wonder if we could ever remember them all. There were some great performers in those days, including yourself, and a damned shame that some of them never got recorded back then.

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: Peace
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 10:28 AM

Chris Rawlings, Montreal

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 10:41 AM

Not to mention Andy Vine. He picked me up hitch-hiking once - I'm trying to remember if I ever actually heard him perform, and why I associate him with Chris Rawlings ...

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 01:39 PM

Chris Rawlings, yeah: It's only six miles to the Pearl River Turnaround, never very far in the sun or the rain, if you don't turn back at the Pearl River Turnaround, never get back again.

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Erik Frandsen
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 02:03 PM

Chris Rawlings: "Here Comes Juan Rodriguez": "...Some say he came from Mexico, where he killed a shoeshine man/ Strangled him with his shoeshine rag, said, 'We all do what we can.'" Juan Rodriguez was the music critic for the local fishwrapper in the late '60s.

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: balladeer
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 02:07 PM

Monte Dunn.

And thanks for mentioning Raun MacKinnon. Took me back to a night in Toronto when we were both about eighteen and we sat on the floor of her hotel room swapping songs till dawn.

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Old Roger
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 05:13 PM

Biff Rose http://www.biffrose.com/

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 11:56 PM

Thank you, Janet in New Jersey for mentioning Laura Weber! She was my music teacher in high school. A wonderful person and wonderful teacher. She took our class into the local NET (former name of PBS) studio, KQED, San Francisco, and onto the set a few times when her folk guitar show was being taped. We got to sit and listen to her and Pete Seeger, Mike Seeger, classical player Christopher Parkening, and Elizabeth Cotton, in separate shows. It was a music education I'll never forget. I don't think she did gigs outside of her teaching, but I agree that she should be included in this thread, if for no other reason than to honor her as a great teacher, R.I.P.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: ridovem
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 04:26 AM

Well, well... what a crowd! I was looking for a viola player that let me sing harmony at the U Miami student union- Ron Kickasola- and his math-grad buddy, Rob Rucker & I played at Myron & Joanie's joint in Coral Gables, in 1962, maybe? Ron put together beautiful a cappella arrangements... & I can still hear some of them. There were lots of players & singers around there, then- some that have been mentioned (Vince Martin, Fred Neil, Beverly St. Marie, Pat Lynch aka Sky, Tom Rush, The Crosby brothers- David & Chip, the Knob Lick guys- Peter Childs & Erick..? and a guy from Vancouver, Wa)- plus some that I didn't see in the various lists- like Vic Smith (whom I ran into giving lessons in Pasadena, maybe, years later). Bob Gibson was around, then- but I didn't see mention of his old partner, Camp. Bob had a grim one-liner to someone who asked him "what's Bob Camp doin'?" "Time," Mr. Gibson intoned.
There was a guy named Chuck that played Russian (& pseudo-Russian) tunes, who spent time in Arizona, as well as Miami. There was also a young guitar wizard who was all of 12 or 13, Johnny Mc..? who went off to play (with parents along, I believe) in Cambridge, someplace, in 1963.
When I got home to the NW in '63 there were lots of players that got my attention- Lynn Hughes, in Seattle (& later Bay area & Nevada), Jerry Murry (who expatriated himself to Victoria, maybe),Rory Condon (could be near San Jose, now), David Coffin (in Portland- & maybe the best unrecorded old folkie I know- introduced me to Skip James' & John Hurt's music in '65), the late "barefoot" John Hendricks, the late Nick Ogilvie- who traveled with Mel Lyman & their wives to the western parts of the Carolinas in the very early '60s to get a taste of "real music country"... & lived to tell about it-- Nick was incredible, indomitable, and often a big load of Trouble... & a beautiful cat. Eejim Manning played some folk & cabaret stuff in Seattle, around '65, then surfaced in NYC, rumor had it. Earl Benson kind of ruled Portland's folk scene for a few years... played with Molly Malarkey, and did some other ensemble work, but alone, with autoharp, was a joy to hear- anytime. Johnny Ward, who's still playing around the NW, moved out of folk & into blues, jugband, old-time jass, & has just kept adding instruments & repertoire. The PH Phactor jugband, which had about 3 different incarnations, included some of these aforementioned. There were some fairly accomplished folkies around Reed College in the late 50s-early 60s, whose names will pop up in my sleep, probably... guys who played the "No Exit" on Water Street (& other dives). I didn't see any mention of Phil & Vivian Williams here, who were instrumental, as collectors & archivists, of transplanted country music in the mill towns around Seattle from the early sixties & on. They were an important part of creating a Seattle Folklore society- and have played for over 45 years (as the Turkey Pluckers, with Barney Munger, who was from Ohio) & as "The Tall Timber Boys", after that. Phil Poth, Andy Aldrich & Don McCallister played some pretty good music together, way back when... Gene Gilleskie was part of the Seattle folkscene mid-60s, and Paul Gillingham was another. Billy Roberts, a very smooth balladeer, was pretty influential (I know I learned some guitar stuff from watching him play). Larry Vanover (aka "Mr. Jug") played then- and fixed a few broken instruments on the side- and plays on, today, albeit infrequently. There's a clip of him playing jug on U-tube... a tune called "Whitewash Station", recorded in 2001... Ok- 'nuf outa me.. Oh- except that there was this Brit around for awhile, back then- Peter Elbling- who was a gas. Had a French-canadian partner sometime, with whom he'd share playing one guitar... real music-hall stuff- another actor who could also sing... ^..^

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: The Sandman
Date: 29 Mar 07 - 07:58 AM

walter greaves,the singing blacksmith,Ibelieve he used to cycle to all his gigs

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: Suffet
Date: 29 Mar 07 - 05:41 PM

Greetings:

If you're coming to NEFFA this year, please stop by my Folk City Interlude session on Friday at 7:00 PM in Mansfield High School 103. I'll be performing the songs I learned from many of the little known folk singers mentioned above when I hung out on the fringes of the New York folk scene in the 1960s. You all know what Folk City was, and the Interlude, as I explained in one of the earlier messages, was an important coffee house near the railroad station in Kew Gardens, Queens.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST,KenBrock
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 04:15 PM

Last week I got an lp for a little known 1960's folk duo I'd never heard of before - Jean and Doc (on Verve/Folkways).

:)

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: ridovem
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 11:47 PM

A correction to an earlier entry: the Brentano that played banjo with Mike Russo (in Portland, Or) was Ron Brentano- not Jim. Another mighty good all-around player on the Wet Coast in those days was Peter Langston (who I believe was a transplant from the East coast). He's involved with the various music camps at Ft. Worden centrum near Pt. Townsend, wa every Summer... which is also a great place to find some of the old coots (& cootesses) who were strummin' & warbling in the bygone days.
My reference to Jack Harshaw of Miami, who was a regular performer at the coffee house in Coral Gables went up in the smoke of toasted troll, apparently... so I'm putting him back. He was a fine interpreter of traditional Brit material, and willing to share music, guitar "secrets", etc with youngsters such as meself- a generous soul...   ^..^

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: Dave'sWife
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 12:07 AM

Guest Celticblues 5 said:

"Sure wish more folks would add a little blurb about the type of music each person makes/made, rather than just listing a dozen or so names! "

I believe I may have mentioned Jesse Colin Young. You would klnow his voice immediately if you remember that song by the Youngbloods (1967 I think) called "Get Together" - it has the chorus that reads:

C'mon people now,
Smile on your brother
Ev'rybody get together
Try and love one another right now

He had a solo career after their breakup , well, still has one!

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: Wordsmith
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 01:47 AM

It's a shame I can't bookmark the spot on this thread where I had to leave off; reading a PC screen with a white background gets my eyes...of course, it's allergy season, too. That said, this is a great thread. Although I don't know many names on it, it certainly shows the breadth and strength of folk music. Thanks for the history.
A number of comments people have made brought back things I'd forgotten. While I was blessed to be in Chicago from 1968-72, I got to see many "name" bands or groups like Peter, Paul and Mary, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Laura Nyro, it seems I'd forgotten Steve Goodman, the coffeehouses like No Exit that someone mentioned, and the fact that I played in two college coffehouses back then, reluctantly. I suffer from performance anxiety. Imagine my dismay at having to fill in for one of my friends who played the autoharp. I had just learned acoustical guitar a year earlier and once got to play a twelve-string during a protest picket-line..."Blow Your Horn For Peace" was one of our logos, and "They Shoot Students, Don't They?" (mine, btw)(re: Kent State and the U. of Mexico students)

The song I had to quickly learn? Appropriately enough, "Helpless." Not one of my favorites, especially after our performance.

I should mention, I took piano lessons for eight years, too, and I can play by ear better than I can read music, but it's been a long time since I've played anything. Let's not get into the 12 years of choir or the women's barbershop chorus I was in, either.

A truly unknown folk singer was introduced in 1971 at another coffehouse we used to frequent, since our stomping grounds was the Northside. The place was called Quiet Knight, and the guy who was sooo very handsome and sooo very good: John Prine. Lucky us!

Peace and goodwill.

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: maryfens
Date: 08 Apr 07 - 06:00 PM

Happy Easter/Hannukah all you folkies. I finally joined Mudcat so send a message to me if you like.
I was part of the Boston/Cambridge scene in the late 1960s-early '70s and also in San Francisco in early '70s with some of the same folks. (Paul MacNeil, Pam & Ray Clayton.)
I hadn't though about that scene for a long time then suddenly heard from Paul M., Kenny Girard and Lesley Moore by e-mail.
Then Chris Smither showed up to play at a local club last fall. Hadn't seen him in over 30 years, and he still sounds great.
I am kind of enjoying the walk down memory lane.
Peace.
Mary

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: BK Lick
Date: 08 Apr 07 - 06:46 PM

"It's a shame I can't bookmark the spot on this thread where I had to leave off; reading a PC screen with a white background gets my eyes..."

With Firefox you can bookmark a link with one click, and it's easy to set a preference to overide a page's background color with one of your choosing.

—BK

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: pitheris
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 08:49 AM

Spider John Koerner

John is a walking encyclopedia of folk songs. I was fortunate to hear him play in the 1970s at Jock O'Sullivans bar in New Haven CT.

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 05:04 PM

During 1961 and '62, I did a little involuntary time with Uncle Sugar at Ft. Lewis, near Tacoma, WN. The World's Fair was happening in Seattle, and many singers, including a mediocre yours truly, converged on the area. Of the home-grown talent, I fondly remember Nancy Quence, from Seattle. Also, clubs such as 92 Yesler, in Seattle and The End, in South Tacoma (run by a French expatriate by the name of Pierre Odier).

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: Deckman
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 05:11 PM

Nancy is still very much alive and still singing VERY WELL in the Seattle area! Bob

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 05:18 PM

Two names I did not see in the sea of messages, above, are Art Podell and Paul Potash. Back in the late '50's, they performed in clubs in Greenwich Village and put out at least one album under the "Art & Paul" name. I believe they were backed by Paul Prestopino on several numbers. Both later performed with Randy Sparks in an enormous group to which most folkies paid little heed, but which made scads of money.

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: Deckman
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 05:56 PM

To: Guest TJ in San Diego. Why don't you join and send me a PM. We probably ended up on the same stages together? Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 01:01 PM

Deckman: I am considering the offer. Meanwhile, I recall my roots in the Fresno, California area. In the late '50's Dave Barber opened a coffee house cum performance opportunity club called "The Renaissance" in Fresno. One of the mainstays was a fellow named Jon Adams, who is still active as a master storyteller and folk musician, based in the area. Many who were later part of the Sweets Mill folk camp scene in the Sierras, including the late Mark Spoelstra, were active here. One of my favorite memories is of Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, composer of "San Francisco Bay Blues," who appeared as an amazing one-man band. A former trio mate of mine, Lee Gilliand, is in happy retirement in Portland, heading a group called "Moondanse Trio," I'm told. Pete Everwine and Gene Bluestein, both english profs at Fresno State, were local performers, scholars and collectors as well. Sadly, this sort of club, where young people can get on a small stage and learn their craft without having missiles hurled at them are too few these days.

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: Deckman
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 01:42 PM

I enjoyed watching and listening to "Lone Cat" Fuller, singing on stage with the late Walt Robertson, at the "Blind Lemon, in Berkeley. I think that was also 1959 ... or was it 1859? CHEERS, Bob Nelson

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 05:24 PM

Correction: The guitarist who backed Art & Paul was the late Dick Rosmini, not Paul Prestopino.

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST,GUEST, Len B, Downey, CA
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 01:06 AM

I am astonished by how big the list of names has become, and also by how many names are still missing. A few that came immediately to mind were Tom Kines, Elizabeth Knight, Harry Jackson (artist and singer), Milt Okun and the Kossoy Sisters (identical twins Irene and Ellen). I could add dozens more. Perhaps later.

The Chicago area banjo player Moe Hirsch was mentioned, but not the other area people that appeared on a recording with him (Chicago Mob Scene, Riverside): Larry Ehrlich, Dean Gitter, Bob March, Pete Stein, Pete Stone, and Blind Bill Todd. Also on that album was "Samuel Hall", who was actually Bob Gibson.

The following quote appeared regarding Bess Hawes:

"Bess Hawes should be better known than she is (Alan Lomax's sister who in my view is as significant in some ways as Alan). Educator, banjo-picker and singer. With the Almanacs."

I couldn't agree more. Alan deserves his own listing, since he made recordings, both on his own and with others. Butch Hawes, Bess' husband, was also with the Almanac Singers.

John Lomax, Bess and Alan's father was one of the giants of American folklore. The field recordings he (along with John) did for the Smithsonian are priceless. They discovered many important singers, most notably "Leadbelly", of course.

I was very fortunate to be able to take guitar lessons from Bess Hawes in the 60's, on a number of occasions. Almost as wonderful as the lessons were the stories she would tell about the songs and the performers, since she knew just about everybody. Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and innumerable others generally stayed at her house when they were in LA.

Unfortunately, I didn't have the talent that some of her other students had, e.g., Odetta. Another unmentioned performer (also one of her students, I believe) that Bess made some recordings with was Mickey Miller.

Finally, another ommission that surprised me was John Greenway. John was a professor at UCLA in the 50's and 60's. He wrote the book "American Folksongs of Protest" and made a numeber of recordings. In addition to protest, labor and union songs, he was an authority on Australian folk music as well.

John went to Australia on a sabbatical to collect additional material for his studies. In those days (things seem quite different now) most people, unlike American bluebloods, would not admit to being descended from Australia's mostly convict first familes, or to know much about Australian history of folklore. When he went into the field and explained what he was looking for, he was told that he ought to contact John Greenway in the States. "He's the expert on that subject."

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 11:06 AM

Somewhere around 1960, I went with a group of friends to the Ash Grove, in L.A. On the bill that night were Mike Seeger and his group and Sam Hinton, among others. I moved here in 1967 only to find that Sam was a local institution, based out of U. of Calif. San Diego. He just had a big going away party and moved into assisted living in northern California. A great performer and a wonderful storyteller and mentor who will be greatly missed. Free association is crazy. I just recalled meeting Bob Canning in Durango, CO, last year. He is now a western artist, a new career after recovering from a bad accident with a horse. He grew up in Orillia, Ontario (Lightfoot's home town)and was a folksinger there before becoming an award-winning movie director and producer. Keep 'em coming!

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 02:08 PM

Others on the Ash Grove stage that night were Ramblin' Jack Elliot and a very young Jackie DeShannon (who was being billed as a folk singer)in her debut. Does anyone remember Pete Jacobs or Hadley Batchelder III, both of whom were doing the coffee house circuit on the west coast in the early '60's?

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST,GUEST, Len B, Downey, CA
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 06:12 PM

To GUEST.TJ: Your comment regarding Sam Hinton brought back some memories. He used to come up to LA occasionally to give some noon concerts at a major aerospace company where I was employed. These were arranged by his sister, who worked for the same company. Sam told me that he had at one time worked for a carnival, and had developed a number of unusual skills. Of the musical ones, he demonstrated that he could whistle a tune and hum the accompaniment simultaneously. He said that he could also whistle an ascending scale and hum a descending one simultaneously also, but he rarely attempted it any longer, since hardly anyone appreciated how difficult that was.

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: Deckman
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 06:33 PM

AND ... I was always amazed to see him put the ENTIRE harmonica in his mouth, close his mouth, and play the harmonica and the guitar at the same time. Bob

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 07:04 PM

Deckman:

If that doesn't DEFINE a harmonica virtuoso, I've never seen or heard one. Amazing stuff. I once had a young employee who had worked in a couple of the early coffee houses in the beach area here. She was an old acquaintance of Tom Waits, who hung out on the streets here in the 60's and played local clubs. Her dad was a master cabinet maker from West Virginia and quite a guitarist. I was invited to their home for a little jam session once, around 1972, and found Sam Hinton in the living room with a few other friends of the family. That was a great evening of singing and sharing and storytelling - one of the best ever. That was the only time I ever saw him "swallow the harpoon," as he laughingly put it.

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: Deckman
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 07:26 PM

I first witnessed this in 1958 at a hoot in Seattle. Then again, I saw him do this when he gave a children's concert at Santa Cruz University in 1962. UnREAL! Bob

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: maryfens
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 10:27 PM

Does anyone remember Joanie Preston from the San Francisco North Beach club scene in the early 1970's?

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Bob Zaidman
Date: 15 Apr 07 - 04:31 AM

Hey Steve! Good memory .. the Interlude was one of the great informal music scenes of the 60s ... which Steve are you?

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: Duke
Date: 15 Apr 07 - 09:48 AM

Anyone remember Kit Snow? I met him in Toronto when he played The Village Corner Club in the sixties. I believe he was from Carmel California. He gave me a whole new way to look at folk music.

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: balladeer
Date: 15 Apr 07 - 08:09 PM

Hey Duke: You must remember lots of relatively "unknown" performers from the Toronto scene. Has anyone mentioned Jim McCarthy? Balladeer

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST,PK
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 12:03 AM

Does anyone remember a David McKinley that sang in the coffee houses in Boston in the mid 60's? Had a wonderful voice!

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 12:15 PM

By the bye; Travis Edmonson is still kicking down in Arizona. He has shown up at a couple of events; folk camps, etc., over the past few years. He is wheelchair bound. His old partner, Bud Dashiell, ran a guitar shop/studio in LA back in the 70's, I believe. He has been gone for many years. I still run into Nick Reynolds, of the Kingston Trio, now and again in Coronado, CA. He is retired, having trouble with his legs and hips, but still enjoys cooking. He's also a dangerous driver - ask the locals. The last original performing member of the Trio, Bob Shane, is retired - with some health issues - in Arizona. Various Trio members used to get together in the Coronado backyard of Nick's sister and brother-in-law for jams. John Stewart, Nick's nephew, Joey Harris, and others would drop in. This was an old home once occupied by Frank Baum when he wrote the Wizard of Oz. The last of those was probably in the early 90's or so. None of these guys were "unknowns," obviously, but there's an update, for what it's worth. I once told Nick how much "trouble" he and his mates caused for all of us young wannabe types, getting us started in the Folk way. His response, "Yeah; but wasn't it all a gas!"

Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
From: Duke
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 10:13 PM

Yes, Balladeer, I remember Jim McCarthy. He was and is and always will be my favourite folk singer. Too bad he never recorded. Cal Winzey was another and Al Cromwell. Oh....there were so many good performers back then.