Travis Edmonson of Bud & Travis
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Comments & Recollections 17
GRAEME LIVINGSTONE in the United Kingdom has a special love for the live Bud & Travis albums.
“I don't know if he remembers me, but I met Travis Edmonson three years ago when Bill and Jo Zorn brought me and my pal neil Johnston across to see Travis at his home.
I'm glad to see he is still enjoying the fruits of life!”
J Graeme Livingstone
Fair Oaks Entertainments
May 2007
RICK SNYDER in southern California is delighted to be able to obtain pristine Bud & Travis recordings on CD.
“My family grew up with Bud & Travis. Specifically Bud, his wife Mary and their children Kim and Shannon were our best friends. I saw Bud two days before he went back east to spend the rest of his life with his sister ...... “
My best to Travis. B&T were something very special!”
Rick Snyder
May 2007
TOM BOLLINGER in Arizona adds to his earlier remarks about Travis Edmonson.
”Over the past year, I've purchased several of the Bud &Travis CD's offered from travisedmonson.com.
My very first purchase included Bud & Travis in Concert Volume 2. And although I have commented a few times on some of my favorite songs on the various CD's, I have never shared my thoughts about the song I find to be the most sensitive and heart-touching.
I refer to Mo Mary from the Vol. 2 album. There is no finer love song for me. The simple but mood-invoking melody and wealth of love so beautifully expressed in the lyrics puts this song at the top of my B&T list.
Nor can I imagine a better arrangement of the song. The wonderful background vocal by Travis - angelic sounds floating high and above- as Bud sings the verses is both moving and unforgettable to this listener. How wonderful it would be, I often say to myself, to love a woman with such depth and life-long commitment, that the only way to convey that love would be to serenade her with Mary, My Mary.”
Tom Bollinger
May 2007
BEN LOPEZ fulfilled a long-time dream when he purchased the Perspective on Bud & Travis CD.
”I've been humming `So Long Stay Well' Since 1970. I was five yrs old then, and still remember my Dad (who passed away in 1975) playing this song.
All the albums he had, of course, are long gone, but I just happen to type in `So Long Stay Well' on Google and there was travisedmonson.com. amazing! Now I really understand why my father Loved Travis Edmonson's music.”
Ben Lopez
May 2007
FORREST BONNER in Huntington Beach, California, has selected the latest CD from the Travis Edmonson Collection as a 40th anniversary gift for his wife.
”Malagueña Salerosa was our favorite song when my wife & I first met. We went to the Troubadour in Los Angeles to hear Bud sing (sadly, without Travis) and have been looking for the Latin Album CD for some long time."
Forrest Bonner
May 2007
GEORGE FULTZ in Wisconsin has held the Bud & Travis Cellar Door album firm in his memories.
” I have always loved `G'imme Some' from Bud & Travis in Person at the Cellar Door. And it is strange how the patter on the album never got old.
If it's is as good as my memories of it, I will be ordering Bud and Travis albums that I never heard before. Preferably those with patter. For self and as Christmas gifts.
It's great to learn that they are available - I had long ago given up hope.”
George Fultz
May 2007
Entertainer TOD BRENDLEN on the San Francisco Peninsula has been a Travis Edmonson fan since the mid-fifties.
”I saw Travis Edmonson with the Gateway Singers many times at the hungry I, and Have all the Bud & Travis and Gateway LPs. Have always loved his work.
I know Bob Shane from many years ago,and used to jam a bit when he was in town. I met Travis at the Kingston Fantasy Camp about 5 years ago when I came out as a camper. Been collecting music for over 45 years.
Also have a Kingston Trio cover group in the San Francisco area which has been performing together for 38 years now. We've opened for Glenn Yarbrough, Pat Paulsen and John Stewart, and had the pleasure of meeting and performing with Stan Wilson about 10 years ago.”
Tod Brendlen
April 2007
Like Dave Muggleworth, who writes about his adventures with Bud & Travis in the PORTRAITS SECTION, RICK FRIEDEN also got to know Travis Edmonson when he performed in Washington, D.C. and environs.
“I followed Bud & Travis' work and attended their shows repeatedly at the Cellar Door in Washington and the Shadows at Virginia Beach. The neat thing about seeing Bud & Travis night after night was that their song list was so extensive, I always heard something I hadn't heard before or hadn't heard for a while. (The Gateway Trio also came through the same clubs.)
I was 16 at the time. Even hung out with Bud & Travis, Bob Shane and an astronaut at the Cellar Door after hours one evening. B&T were every bit as witty and fast off stage as they were on stage.”
Rick Frieden
April 2007
NICHOLAS RODRIGUEZ in Pasadena, California is a part of the greater Bud & Travis family.
” My great uncle was Charlie (Cipriano) Gonzalez, to whom the Latin Album was dedicated. I have listened to Bud and Travis since the 60's."
Nicholas Rodriguez
April 2007
GLEN OWEN in Washington sums up the quality of Travis Edmonson's talent in a sentence that says it all.
”Bud and Travis is still probably the best "folk" act with possible exception of The Weavers.”
Glen Owen
April 2007
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