“It’s my most precious possession,” Max Ochs says as he retrieves a piece of broken metal from a guitar case a scrap of trash he found on a dirt road in New Mexico in 1967 that he’s been toting arou.
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RANDY BARRETT (PC: Charlie Clark) The now-worldwide reach of Washington-area bluegrass music, dear listeners, was made possible by one generous radio statio .
In the folk music boom in New York in the 1960s, the music of guitarist Mississippi John Hurt was a huge influence on players like Happy Traum, John Sebastian, and others.
From the July 2018 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY STEVE JAMES In the close, dimly lit quarters of the subterranean Gaslight Cafe, on MacDougal Street in New York’s Greenwich Village, a lot of what is now music history and legend happened as the basket was passed and the upstairs neighbors called in noise complaints. Besides hosting germinal performances by…