So what happened when he passed away in 2008, I started picking up the bug and one thing led to another and then Bob Shane, whom I'd known all my life as my dad's partner and the last surviving member of the trio, reached out and invited me to play with them on a PBS special. He was a really fun and great guy but his music was work for him and when he was off work, he did what he wanted to do which was to laugh and tell jokes, have a good time and be a good dad. He was in the Kingston Trio and when he came off the road, he put his instruments away.
He was not the type to sit around and play a song for you at a party or anything. When my dad retired, he put everything away. I didn't play music at all until about eight years ago. My dad mentored him and was a father figure to him in many ways, so Mike and I have been very, very close our entire lives. In 1963 Mike Marvin, who is my cousin, came to live with us. I was born in the Bay Area in 1960, and my dad was in the band right at the height of their popularity when we were living in Sausalito. Is that a trick question? I want to hear it all. So how did you three guys turn into the Kingston Trio 3.0? That's exactly right - it's literally a reboot of the franchise. So tell me about the new band - this is Kingston Trio 3.0? I just read an Avett Brothers article that I thought was very nice. I was just reading a couple of articles of yours. Wow, Josh, you called on time therefore, you guys must always start on time. Josh Reynolds discussed the latest during a recent phoner. The original Trio had hundreds and hundreds of songs - the new version, also will be in no danger of running out of material. Winners of said lawsuit and blessed by the only surviving member of the band, Bob Shane, the new version of the Trio is led by Josh Reynolds - son of Nick - and ably assisted by Mike Marvin and Tim Gorelangton. The Kingston Trio 3.0 will headline the Folk Reunion at the Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks at a geezer-friendly Sunday afternoon show with John Sebastian opening. They stayed a while, then went away, then came back, then wouldn't go away with line-up changes, and now, after the customary lawsuit, they're back, sort of, but clearly as "back" as they're ever going to be. To review: The Kingston Trio showed up and helped to popularize folk music. Oh, and the Beatles opened for them once. It was low tech folk - two guitars, a banjo and three swell voices.Įven a short list of their hits would include "Scotch & Soda," "Bad Man’s Blunder," "Tijuana Jail" and "M.T.A." and "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" Not protest singers, even though they did sing "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" on the White House lawn in '66, the trio was always about having good, clean fun through songs that were relentlessly goofy, PG-rated Americana, perhaps reminding us of what we thought we were once upon a time and maybe, what we should aspire to be again. Probably best known for that bad boyfriend ballad of all time, "Tom Dooley," which won them a Grammy for best Country & Western Performance (no Folk category then), the Kingstons helped put folk on the map. Their debut album in '58 went gold and stayed on the charts for four years.
KINGSTON TRIO MERRY MINUET FULL
This set includes full sleeve notes and chart history and is an essential for fans of the genre.Back in 1957, when Beaver Cleaver faced second grade and Ike faced the Cold War with more golf, Bob Shane, Dave Guard and Nick Reynolds decided to give the folk music thing a try. The Kingston Trio transcended the negative idea of Folk music and gave major record labels the impetus to sign up many of the next wave of big Folk acts. Four original million selling LPs on 2 CDs by the trio who took Folk music out of the clubs and onto the university campuses and stages of America and defined Folk Music in the late '50s and early '60s.įeatures many of their hit singles such as: 'Tom Dooley' and their version 'Sloop John B' which was later revived by the Beach Boys.
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