Category Archives: Santa Barbara Folk Music: The 1960s
An on-line version of a book about the Santa Barbara, CA folk music scene in the late 1950s and the 1960s, with names of venues, performers, happenings as written by 19 of those performers active at that time.
The Sixties in Folk Music / 17. Jim Greenwell
The Nexus Jim Greenwell I arrived in California in September 1961, courtesy of the United States Air Force. I had been sent to Vandenberg Air Force Base at Lompoc after three months of training at Lackland Air Force Base in … Continue reading →
The Sixties in Folk Music / 16. Don Robertson
Folk Scene: The 1960s in Santa Barbara Don Robertson In 1960 I attended Defiance College in Ohio. There was a beatnik fellow named “Doc” there. Both of us lived in WWII Quonset huts over that summer. Doc taught me to … Continue reading →
The Sixties in Folk Music / 15. René Leyva
Playing Around René Leyva My first experience on stage was at an assembly when I was in kindergarten at 32nd Street School in Los Angeles. The most memorable part of this première was that after my brother and I finished … Continue reading →
The Sixties in Folk Music / 14. Phil Pritchard
Bass Man Phil Pritchard Henry Phillip Pritchard–known as Phil. Born January 3, 1947, in Yuma, Arizona. I lived in Carlsbad, New Mexico; Clovis, New Mexico; and El Paso, Texas. My family and I moved to Santa Barbara, California, in 1950. … Continue reading →
The Sixties in Folk Music / 13. Todd Grant
I guess it all started when I was about 10 years old. That would have been 1951. Lots of Hank Williams on the radio, Ernest Tubb, Benny Goodman—you remember the days. I lived on the east side of town, down … Continue reading →
