hang down your head tom dooley @ skippy.

rip nick.

VERY early color TV performance of the KT classic "A Worried Man" in Living Color!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AUZEdFeVwU&feature=related

I can't find the KT doing this so-
Joe & Eddie/There's a Meetin' Here Tonight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znj2aWAKLvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC7-WLQ4pDo
Three Jolly Coachmen, the first song from the "Songs from the Hungry I" album. I listened to this album over & over as a kid, and still love the Kingston Trio. Their influence cannot be underestimated.
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The last time I saw the Trio was in Los Alto, CA at Chuck's Cellar. They were as good as they ever were. My favorite group playing my favorite music.

I saw the last performance of the original Trio and I can't remember how many times I saw them in LA after that! I even saw the revival group here in FL about 10 years ago! What a kick. I think I have most of their albums. (Yes, I still have my albums!) RIP

2008 has been one of the worst years in regards to losing icons...and i really need a drink...how about a scotch and soda

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nTsP3hsmiQ

i wish god had granted me bob shane's voice

The Kingston Trio was music that I grew up with, loved and will never forget, thanks to my older brothers. I'll always remember our family camping trips next to the lake when all we had was a transistor radio, deck of cards, cribbage board and rapidly-fading Coleman lantern for entertainment. Good times.

It's always sad when a musical legend from our younger days passes away.

Thank you, bluegal, for the memories.

Say, did you hear that they found Big Foot???? Her name is Sarah Palin. ;-)

Camel: Sasquatch -

http://www.technohippie.com/geeklog/public_html/mediagallery/media.php?s...

This was a response from me to a response from one of my right-wing extremist bloggers responses to one of my comments on my blog -
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> Me -
>>> Paleface/McCaint!!!!
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> Nestor responds -
>> What are her (Palin’s, I’m assuming for this particular response) radio ratings?
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> 1699
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Weird Al: Amish Paradise -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsfVw9xxoNY

The Trio were part of the 60's, the best decade of the 20th centruy.
MTA and The Reverend Mr. Black are what sold me on these great musicians.
Yarborough, The Christy Minstrels, The Brothers Four........all great musicians and songwriters who learned from each other, rather than compete. If only politicians understood the concept.

Thanks for the clip, Bluegal.

RIP Nick.

what a shame and a real loss-

http://www.musicnewsnet.com/2008/10/nick-reynolds-o.html

"I sometimes lament the fact that we do not have folk singers on the scene now"

Never heard of Billy Bragg? http://www.billybragg.co.uk/news/index.php
I'm going to see him 2 weeks from Sunday.

Between The Wars
I was a miner
I was a docker
I was a railway man
Between the wars
I raised a family
In times of austerity
With sweat at the foundry
Between the wars

I paid the union and as times got harder
I looked to the government to help the working man
And they brought prosperity down at the armoury
We're arming for peace, me boys
Between the wars

I kept the faith and I kept voting
Not for the iron fist but for the helping hand
For theirs is a land with a wall around it
And mine is a faith in my fellow man
Theirs is a land of hope and glory
Mine is the green field and the factory floor
Theirs are the skies all dark with bombers
And mine is the peace we know
Between the wars

Call up the craftsmen
Bring me the draftsmen
Build me a path from cradle to grave
And I'll give my consent
To any government
That does not deny a man a living wage

Go find the young men never to fight again
Bring up the banners from the days gone by
Sweet moderation
Heart of this nation
Desert us not, we are
Between the wars

Domino @ 9:

As the cool kids passed the Kingston Trio in the sixties, they were not considered passe. Rather, they were popular with college kids. No matter what we think about it, the Trio were more popular than any of the early sixties folk acts.

A large reason for this was the Kingston Trio put on a lively show, which could not be said for Baez, Dylan, Peter Paul and Mary or the rest. The Trio did have their share of protest songs, including popularizing Where Have All The Flowers Gone.

I saw them in the early sixties. We came early, packed a dinner and had front row seats at Red Rocks amphitheater in Denver. It took me ten years to realize why my father had us leave before Raspberries, Strawberries. It would not have been safe in the front row with a bunch of college boys who had been drinking.

It was only later that I read commentaries about how square the Kingston Trio were. I am sorry, but that is so typical of music reviewers who cannot compliment without an equal and opposite putdown.

Gotta, gotta agree. The Kingstons were seminal, absolutely so- ,and does their stuff ever stand the up today. Case in point: any time I've tried to get one of my teens to listen to something, they automatically reject it. One day, my son-who's into WuTang Clan and Sublime-has copied "Scotch & Soda" by The Kingston Trio from my list into his playlist, and is listening to it while IMing a friend. I commented, "Andy, you like this music?" He seemed almost insulted, replying, "Dad, this is a great song!"

And don't forget Bud and Travis' short-lived team-up. Their Santa Monica live concert was re-released and must have for the most talented folk performers of all.

Also, 40 years ago, I drove a former Limeliter around to play at midnight petition-signing homes so we could get Clean Gene McCarthy first on the ballot ahead of Bobby. McCarthy said "We" while RFK said "I"; Bobby created special-interest group politics to the Democrats, resulting in our 40 years in the wilderness and the Hillary losing campaign approach. Only with Dean and Obama have Dems finally risen above the "get enough teachers, women, government workers, and minorities to reach 50%, and everyone else be damned" school of politics.

Folk songs were about the American people, not about partisanship and ideology. No other country has a folk-song tradition: it is uniquely American. It doesn't have to be a source or ridicule, a la "A Mighty Wind."