Happy Traum Live In Holland 2017 (CD)

Happy Traum (Woodstock, NY) first emerged 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 at the Folkways Records studio to record an album titled Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1. For several years, Happy studied blues guitar with Brownie McGhee, who greatly influenced his guitar style. He was known as one half of the duo Happy and Artie Traum, which he founded together 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 his career as a solo artist and founded Homespun Music Instruction. In 1971, Happy rejoined Dylan in the studio, where he played guitar, banjo and bass and provided background vocals on four songs that appeared on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II, The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 and Another Self Portrait. Dylan also invited Happy to a famous session with poet Allen Ginsberg, which resulted in the box set Holy Soul Jelly Roll. From Jane Traum's liner notes: "There's nothing like a live concert. It's spontaneous, and the artist and the audience share the experience. There are no repeats or re-recordings. It's LIVE! The applause is real, the sound is real and the joy of performing is real. Happy loved making music. He loved teaching music and he loved communicating through his playing. That night in 2017, the atmosphere in the theater was electrifying. I will always cherish the memory of that night.