Art Podell

Four years before Paul Simon and Artwork Garfunkel (who have already been “Paul and Artie” regardless) brought their folk-based vocalizing to Columbia Records, the label was host to a fairly different duo using the same given names: Artwork & Paul. Artwork Podell and Paul Potash had been young denizens from the middle- to past due ’50s NY folk scene if they decided to begin performing collectively in Greenwich Town. Both Potash and Podell had been competent guitarists and talented songwriters, and Podell was an especially talented arranger. One of the most distinctive duos training of NY, they were authorized to Columbia Information in 1960, at the same time when record businesses were beginning to look for another Kingston Trio; Columbia was longing for lightning to hit again, since it got for Terry Gilkyson and the simple Riders with “Marianne.” They cut two albums for Columbia, which the first, Tracks of Globe and Sky, is undoubtedly a “dropped” classic from the past due-’50s/early-’60s folk growth. Highlighted by their version of John Lomax and Alan Lomax’s edition of “All of the Fairly Horses,” the recording achieved a cult following for the East Coastline and sold sufficiently to justify another LP, Hangin’, Drinkin’ and Stuff, in 1961. That same yr, the duo remaining NY for California to check the waters from the Western Coastline folk picture, but they’d split up the group before the yr was out. Several months later on in early 1962, Artwork Podell joined the first, studio-bound edition of the brand new Christy Minstrels, whose debut (in support of album for the reason that incarnation) developed enough of the splash to justify another album as well as the creation of the executing group. Podell became section of that energetic band of Christies, by some quotes the prominent member alongside creator Randy Sparks. On the other hand, Paul Potash joined up with Sparks’ New Christy Minstrels farm-team, the trunk Porch Bulk, and 2 yrs afterwards, in 1964, became a member of the Christies, functioning alongside his previous partner for the calendar year. Podell later caused Jim Helms, documenting Jim & Artwork Sing and Play a Folk Melody, which featured the original number “Careless Appreciate,” and in addition made an appearance (with Jim Rosmini, amongst others) on Mason Williams’ The Banjo Tale record. He became a manufacturer and in cooperation with Nick Woods, was in charge of documenting Biff Rose’s The Thorn in Mrs. Rose’s Aspect for the Tetragrammaton label, which included the original edition of “Fill up Your Center,” a melody that David Bowie protected on Hunky Dory. Potash continuing performing, even writing a stage with Captain Beefheart & His Magic Music group in 1967 in California, and in addition seems to have done some performing.