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軟體簡介:
Happy Traum's skillful musicianship and avid interest in traditional and contemporary
music has brought him worldwide recognition. He has performed extensively throughout
the U.S. Canada, Europe, Australia and Japan, and has appeared on recordings as a
featured artist and as a member of various ensembles. He has recorded and/or performed
with many top artists, including Bob Dylan, Chris Smither, Maria Muldaur, Eric Andersen,
Rory Block, Jerry Jeff Walker, Allen Ginsberg, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel
and numerous others.
In 1967 Happy, with his wife and partner, Jane Traum, founded Homespun Tapes, and over
the years they have built it into one of the world's leading producers of audio and
video music instruction. An expert guitar and banjo player, Happy produces all of the
lessons for Homespun and brings to it his many years of experience as a performer,
writer, editor, folklorist, teacher and recording artist.
Happy is the author of more than a dozen best-selling guitar instruction books, has
written numerous magazine columns and articles, and for three years was editor of Sing
Out! The Folksong Magazine.
Aside from a distinguished solo career, Happy and his late brother, Artie Traum, played
regularly as a duo for more than 40 years. Their first two Capitol albums, "Happy And
Artie Traum" and "Double Back," are widely considered to be classics. Long-time residents
of Woodstock, NY, Happy and Artie co-produced several important records for Rounder
featuring some of the area's finest folk and rock musicians. These included "Mud Acres,
Music Among Friends" and "Woodstock Mountains." Happy and Artie's album "Hard Times In The
Country" featured liner notes by Allen Ginsberg. In 2007, Slice of Life Records in Japan
released a CD, "Happy and Artie Traum - Live Recordings 1970s – 1980s "
Happy's solo albums include "Relax Your Mind," "American Stranger," "Bright Morning Stars"
"Friends And Neighbors," "Buckets Of Songs" and his latest release, "I Walk the Road Again."
