Mark Spoelstra

In the wake of Bob Dylan’s breakthrough success in the first ’60s, countless other similarly styled folk artists followed, including singer/guitarist Mark Spoelstra. Given birth to on June 30, 1940, in Kansas Town, MO, but elevated in California, Spoelstra ultimately relocated to NEW YORK, where he started playing at coffeehouses and night clubs (often performing like a duo with non-e apart from Dylan himself). Soon after the dawn from the ’60s, Spoelstra was authorized by Folkways Information, issuing a set of recordings in 1963: Tag Spoelstra Documented at Golf club 47 Inc. and Tunes of Tag Spoelstra having a Twelve-String Acoustic guitar. 1965 kept great guarantee for Spoelstra, as he authorized a fresh record label (Elektra), released his third launch general, Five & Twenty Queries, and played in the Newport Folk Event. But after yet another release, 1966’s Mind-set, Spoelstra’s music profession was placed on keep as he offered in the U.S. armed service. After satisfying his military responsibilities, Spoelstra found where he remaining off, liberating a self-titled launch for Columbia Information in 1969 and touring america, Canada, Britain, and Holland. But once again, mainstream achievement eluded Spoelstra. Today needing to support a family group and failing woefully to pay the bills, he completely changed his back again on music and switched his focus on religious beliefs. But by 1974, Spoelstra experienced enrolled in both Year Discovery Artwork Guild Internship System of Intensive Bible Research at Peninsula Bible Chapel, in Palo Alto, CA, ultimately resulting in him learning to be a minister of music. Spoelstra consequently started issuing albums once again, such as for example 1976’s gospel-based In some way, I USUALLY Knew, amongst others. On Feb 24, 2007, after a brief battle with malignancy, the singer passed on.