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The country-rock group referred to as the Lewis & Clarke Expedition evolved out of several folk bands operating around LA through the mid-’60s. Shaped by Dallas songwriter Michael Martin Murphey (beneath the guise of Travis Lewis) with Owen Castleman (executing as Boomer Clarke), the music group documented one LP in …

In lots of ways, Michael Martin Murphey gets the career that Michael Nesmith from the Monkees — with whom Murphey performed early in both of their careers — may have had if he previously never been selected for the NBC series. A guitarist/songwriter, Murphey led the country-rock group the Lewis …

With a unique sound marked from the blazing (and frequently hilariously comic) banjo theatrics of Little Roy Lewis, a large bass drum, and robust harmonies from a contingent of identically dressed Lewis daughters, the Lewis Family has continued to be an institution of Georgia music and of the bluegrass festival …