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Artist
Kusudo & Worth
8+ albums
psychedelic folkfolk
about
The story of Riverside folk duo Kusudo & Worth has the makings of a feature film. The opening shot: Two elementary school-aged boys meet on a bus at the beginning of the 1960 school year. Jeff Worth, in fourth grade at the time, approached third grade student Ken Kusudo and struck up a conversation about the nursery Kusudo’s parents owned. Fade to black. The next scene: More than 50 years later, Kusudo & Worth will perform in public for the first time in decades at Backstreet Restaurant in Riverside on Friday, Aug. 21. From there, the film would tell the story of the pair’s friendship and musical endeavors in a series of flashbacks. A couple of years after their first meeting on the school bus, Worth and Kusudo, inspired by older siblings who loved The Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary, played together in a junior high quartet that only lasted only a couple of weeks, but left a lasting impression on Kusudo. “I realized that Jeff could play the guitar very well,” he said. But a year later, Kusudo and Worth met again, this time in the Riverside Municipal Auditorium where the city held “The Lively Arts” program and Worth heard Kusudo playing the guitar to an original song he wrote, “Elizabeth.” “It was amazing to me, I just couldn’t believe that he wrote it,” Worth said. They began playing together officially, including popular songs from Simon and Garfunkel, Peter, Paul and Mary and Bob Dylan in their sets before friend Richard Krieb began to pen original lyrics for them.
