By Doug Podell
Jul 21, 2021
“Well, the first thing that rang in my head was black music; all black records that were R&B or blues oriented. I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me – it resonated.
“Then I found out later that they were black and they were from the Deep South, and that started my education. In fact the only education I ever really had was finding out about blues. I took a kind of elementary fundamental education in art, but it didn t rivet my attention in the same way blues did.
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Boothbay Harbor Opera House: Ramblin Jack Elliott
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Live At The Linda” brings you some of the best musical acts to grace the stage at The Linda - WAMC s Performing Arts Studio. This week features Jim Gaudet and The Railroad Boys from August 2020, and Happy Traum from March 2016.
Credit Happy Traum
Happy Traum, Woodstock’s own folk music legend, was smitten by American folk music as a teenager and began playing guitar and 5-string banjo. He was an active participant of the legendary Washington Square/Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1950s and ‘60s, and studied guitar with the famed blues master, Brownie Mcghee.