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Post by secondroy on Jan 18, 2011 10:15:33 GMT -5
I think I have all their albums. I was hooked on them the first time I heard "Tom Dooley". I was in college and played a Gibson and when I first heard them I knew there was a major difference in our guitars. I had to have what they were playing which was a Martin D 28. They were out of my price range at $200 so it was many years later that I bought my HD 28 which I still have. I paid about $900 for it and still have it.
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Post by Chesapeake on Jan 18, 2011 10:49:49 GMT -5
I'm not too shy to admit that the KT rocked my world. Some people remember where they were and what they were doing during world-shaking moments like assassinations. I was in my father's salmon-colored '58 Chevy driving around Bradlee Shopping Center in the Park Fairfax area of northern Virginia listening to the usual fare of rock 'n' roll and R&B when the first notes of Tom Dooley (Bob Shane playing tenor banjo with a pick) came out of the car radio. That led me to Pete Seeger, Woodie Guthrie, Cisco Houston, the Almanac Singers, Baez, Dylan, along with song collectors by the names of Lomax, Child, and Carter, and from there into country blues and then bluegrass.
I owe those boys in striped shirts a lot.
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Post by frazer on Jan 18, 2011 22:46:07 GMT -5
It may surprise you, but I, too, I grew up listening to the Kingston Trio as a little lad in South Wales in the early '70's. My mum still has several albums at her house. I remember the cover of 'Live at the Hungry i' distinctly. I remember lying on the floor watching the colours on the edge of the (Columbia'?) label going around and around on her open record player. I also remember the smell of the record when she took it out of the sleeve.
She also had a lot of Peter, Paul and Mary, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra. And the music from the movie 'The Sweet Smell of Success' by the Chico Hamilton Quartet.
My mum still has good musical taste.
Nostalgia, huh? Whadyagonnado? ;-)
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