Tag Archives: 1939 in Seattle

As the storyplot goes, Ron Holden got his break right into the music business when, after becoming arrested on charges of cannabis and alcohol possession, a officer in the train station heard him singing and told Holden to contact him after he premiered. That officer was Larry Nelson, who was …

Vocalist Judy Collins was, alongside Joan Baez, among the two main interpretive performers to emerge from the folk revival from the past due ’50s and early ’60s. Like Baez, she started performing traditional folk tracks, then shifted to popularize the task of contemporary vocalist/songwriters, even composing her own tracks sometimes. …