Happy Traum

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Happy Traum (born Harry Peter Traum in The Bronx, New York City, on 9 May 1938; died 17 July 2024) was an American folk musician remembered for being a stalwart of the Greenwich Village music scene of the 1960s and the Woodstock music scene of the 1970s and 1980s. For several years, he studied blues guitar with Brownie McGhee, who was a big influence on his guitar style. He was known as one half of Happy & Artie Traum, a duo he began with his brother. They released several albums, including Happy and Artie Traum (1969, Capitol), Double Back (1971, Capitol), and Hard Times In The Country (1975, Rounder). He continued as a solo artist and as founder of Homespun Music Instruction. Traum began playing guitar and 5-string banjo as a teenager. He attended the High School of Music and Art, where he took up music and was drawn into the folk music boom of the late 1950s. He is a former guitar student of the legendary folk and blues musician Brownie McGhee, for whom he later edited a blues guitar instruction guide and songbook. His group, The New World Singers, was the first to perform and record some of Bob Dylan's earliest songs. Traum performed as a soloist, as a duo with his brother Artie Traum, and with a number of bands, including The New World Singers and, in the mid-1960s, the Children of Paradise. His performances took him throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Traum's first recording was an album called "Broadside, Vol.1" recorded by Folkways Records

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Buckets Of Song

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The Best of Broadside 1962-1988: Anthems of the American Underground from the Pages of Broadside Magazine

Relax Your Mind

American Stranger

Just for the Love of It

I Walk the Road Again

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The Sounding Joy: Christmas Songs In And Out Of The Ruth Crawford Seeger Songbook

Bucket Of Songs

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Аэростат vol. 327 - Мыслитель

Banjoman A Tribute to Derroll Adams

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There's a Bright Side Somewhere

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Аэростат vol. 516 - Что Я Слушаю

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