Teodoro “Ted” Ramirez and Michael Ronstadt play music that they learned growing up in Arizona; music from the Mexican, Native Americans and European cultures of the people who live together in a unique mixture in the southwest. Ted and Michael have...
Topics: cowboy songs, folk, guitar, music, world music

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Goebel Reeves, b 1899, d 1969, the son of a Texas legislator, served in the Army and was wounded during WWI. On his return to the States he adopted the lifestyle of a hobo, wandering across the country, writing and singing songs. He worked as a merchant..
Topics: country, cowboy songs, Goebel Reeves, grand old opry, Hobo's Lullaby, movies, western, Woody Guthrie

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A late survivor of the black string band tradition of the early 20th century was the trio of Carl Martin, Ted Bogan and Howard Armstrong. These three musicians from Virginia, South Carolina and Tennessee worked together, with the addition of one or more..
Topics: blues, Carl Martin, Howard Armstrong, Jethro Burns, Martin Bogan and Armstrong, Steve Goodman, string band music, Ted Bogan

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Jaco Pastorius is one of those names you hear brought up by musicians that might not be so well known to the wider world. He played bass with the band Weather Report and you have probably heard him in that context. He is one of the people that brought...
Topics: America the Beautiful, bass, Jaco Pastorius, jazz, pop, Weather Report

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This familiar song, which sold over six million copies for the Kingston Trio and is credited with starting the folk scare was derived from a song written in the nineteenth century by Thomas Land of, a resident of North Carolina. It is based on a...
Topics: banjo, Dom Dooley, folk, folk music, Kingston Trio, Tom Dula

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