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The Sixties in Folk Music / 13. Todd Grant

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Peter Feldmann

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 →

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The Sixties in Folk Music / 11. Gene McGeorge

Posted on July 1, 2018 by Peter Feldmann

When I first met Peter Feldmann in Santa Barbara in the early 60s, I had been playing in a Mariachi band with some of my fellow construction friends. My style was too classical-formal (after five years of childhood training), but … Continue reading →

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The Sixties In Folk Music: Santa Barbara / Introduction

Posted on June 28, 2018 by Peter Feldmann

Introduction – Table of Contents Several years ago, I received a letter from Marilyn Berner, living in Colorado. She reminded me that she, along with her husband Bill, ran a folk music coffee house, The Iopan, in Santa Barbara California … Continue reading →

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So. California bluegrass history: . . . continued

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Peter Feldmann

We’ve had some nice comments re. the previous page on Southern California bluegrass groups, and received further information on other groups active in the region in the 1960s.  (Keep those memories and photos coming!) John Egenes sends a photo of … Continue reading →

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Microphones and The Bluegrass Music

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Peter Feldmann

but what about microphones? When Bill traveled with his tent shows, you mention electric lights. What did he use to amplify his instruments? It is my impression that bluegrass was built around a microphone, and has been subsequently altered by the expansion of a single mic into a long, often forbidding, row of mics, monitors, etc. Continue reading →

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