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More notable for his or her later on achievements and peripheral connections to essential industry numbers than for his or her music, the present day Folk Quartet made commercially minded folk in the first ’60s with an focus on group harmonies. These were not really far taken off the Kingston …

Jac Holzman of Elektra Information once called Cyrus Faryar “the Persian minstrel of Barham Boulevard” — that’s high compliment, indeed, for a guy whose signings include Arthur Lee, Jim Morrison, Tim Buckley, Carly Simon, Judy Collins, Ed McCurdy, and Fred Neil, to mention just a couple, What’s a lot more …

In 1961, Dave Safeguard still left the Kingston Trio, attempting to pursue different musical directions, and in addition annoyed by some shortcomings in the handling from the group’s finances. By the end of the entire year he shaped Dave Safeguard & the Whiskeyhill Performers, enlisting David Whole wheat (who had …