[HANASHIR:14614] Re: 60s Folk Music (and 50's too)

[Jacqueline Guttman <jguttman...>]

Do any of you go back to the 50's? That's when I learned to play 3 guitar
chords at camp, learned they worked for a bunch of songs,  and was
introduced to "Michael", etc.

We bohemians at the HS of Music and Art were doing this stuff way back.

Jackie Guttman

> From: Marsha Fensin <mfsings (at) ccr(dot)net>
> Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:23:33 -0500
> To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Subject: [HANASHIR:14607] Re: 60s Folk Music (and 50's too)
> 
> As long as we are reminiscing I have to share as well.  I have
> always carried around the reputation ( and I wear it proudly) of being a
> "folkie from the 60's."  How proud I was when I was able to learn the
> finger picking for Puff the Magic Dragon. One of my biggest thrills in
> the mid 80's at a rally for Soviet Jewry in Milwaukee, was being Peter
> Yarrow's opening act with my friend Karen Berman. Of course we got to
> meet him, talk with him, compare guitars, repertory.  Needless to say I
> was in heaven. He praised my Gibson F25 and I kidded him about the state
> of his patched up guitar case and all his travel labels.  He autographed
> one of my old PP and M albums--yes, the kind you could hug. What a nice
> memory! And oh yes, I have the Joan Baez albums and remember Ian and
> Sylvia as well.
> I will add my words to the folks at the Milken archives.
> Marsha
> 
> 
> 

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