Steve Young recorded a song of mine, “Contender”.  This was my first significant cut. To tell the truth, it meant the world to me. Later he would record “If My Eyes Were Blind”. His aversion of that song remains – to my mind – the best rendition. In 1993, we played in Lichtenvoorde, Holland for a concert series put on by Carl Van Melis. Ad Vanderveen was also playing on the bill. Ad and I have been friends since that concert.  Listening to these recordings after all these years reminds me of just how important that concert was to me. Steve was the real deal to say the least — prickly, saintly, enigmatic, son of the South and citizen of the world.
							-- David Olney, 2019

Live In Holland 1993

Going Back To California

Silverlake

The White Trash Song

Ragtime Blue Guitar

Tobacco Road

Evermore

No Business of Mine (Live)

Love Is (Live)

10 Years Of European World Of Bluegrass [Disc 2]

Sunrise

Live In Holland

Teardrops in My Eyes

Ocean of Diamonds

Happy Traum first appeared on record at a historic session in late 1962 when a group of young folk musicians, including Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger, Peter LaFarge, and The Freedom Singers, gathered in the studio at Folkways Records to record an album called Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1. With his group, The New World Singers.
For several years, Happy studied blues guitar with Brownie McGhee, who was a big influence on his guitar style. He was known as one half of Happy and Artie Traum, a duo he began with his brother. They released several albums, including Happy and Artie Traum on  Capitol records, and “Hard Times In The Country” on  Rounder Records. He continued as a solo artist and as founder of Homespun Music Instruction.
In 1971 Happy once again joined Dylan in the studio, playing guitar, banjo, bass, and singing harmony on four songs, which appeared on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II, and The Bootleg Series Vol. 10, and Another Self Portrait. Dylan also invited Happy to participate in a famous session with poet Allen Ginsberg, which resulted in the box set Holy Soul Jelly Roll.
From  Jane Traum’s linernotes:  There is nothing like a live concert. It is spontaneous and the performer and the audience share the experience. There are no retakes or remakes. It is LIVE! The applause is real, the sound is real and the joy of performing is real. Happy loved to play music. He loved to teach music and he loved to communicate through his playing. The theater felt electric that night in 2017. I will treasure the memory of that evening always.


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The Water is Wide

The Water is Wide

Strictly Country Records

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