Tag Archives: Modern Folk Quartet

A significant behind-the-scenes shape in rock and roll and folk through the ’60s and ’70s, Jerry Yester was created in Birmingham, Alabama about January 9, 1943. Yester was raised in Burbank, California, and in his teenagers he created a enthusiasm for folk music. Jerry teamed up along with his sibling …

Henry Diltz started being a musician who experienced photography as a spare time activity. He’s now mainly known, however, among the most important popular music professional photographers, keeping track of among his credits a lot more than 200 record sleeves. Among those are well-known best-sellers like Adam Taylor’s Special Baby …

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 …

Douglas Farthing Hatfield, better referred to as Chip Douglas, was one of the most ubiquitous figures over the folk-rock and pop/rock and roll scenes from the middle/later ’60s. He got into music skillfully in the first ’60s in Honolulu, HI, where he was leading his very own folk trio. Ultimately, …