The kingston trio biography books
In Greenback Dollar: The Incredible Rise of The Kingston Trio, the first in-depth biography of America's first recording super-group, William J. Bush retraces.
The first in-depth biography of America's first recording super-group, William J. Bush retraces the band members' personal and professional lives..
Like many of my postwar Baby Boom compadres, I was just a kid in when Kingston Trio songs started to bubble out of my transistor radio.
My little Panasonic was no bigger than a pack of cigarettes and it came with a single earbud, though I don’t think we called them that back then. I was completely hooked on our local DJ’s daily top-ten listing, and not wanting to miss a trick, I smuggled my radio into elementary school and stowed it inside my flip-up desk under my books, the wire emerging out of the circular inkwell port right into my ear.
The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late s to the late s.My teacher took great pity on me, thinking I was “hard of hearing.” I went along with this ruse until the inevitable parent teacher conference where I was shamefully busted!
I hung down my head, just like Tom Dooley.
Later that year I found myself at my grandfather’s lake cottage with my uncles, aunts, and cousins.
My cousin Christy had a nylon-string guitar and she was pretty good with fingerstyle. She had learned many folk songs, some of whi