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A guitarist and singer of old-time cowboy tunes, Thin Critchlow became referred to as a performer in the first ’30s, when he sang on radio and became a pal of folklorist John A. Lomax. Critchlow, in his early twenties, was operating as a nationwide recreation area ranger in Utah when he started performing live radio on the Salt Lake Town radio station, using a repertoire and design that were even more traditional and genuine compared to the cowboy music popularized via films and information. In the first ’60s he garnered some acclaim within the folk revival, executing at celebrations and carrying out some documenting. He performed an eight-string electric guitar (both top strings had been doubled) and, when documented in the past due ’50s and early ’60s, sang within a warm, radiant, relaxed voice, sketching mostly from music originating through the past due 19th hundred years. He passed away at age 60 in 1969, quickly before the discharge of an record of his recordings on Arhoolie; that record, by adding unreleased materials, was released on Compact disc in 1999.
