Travis Edmonson of Bud & Travis
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Drummer BRIAN CHIDESTER is presently writing a wonderful exploration of the coffee house scene in southern California, "The Beat It Generation in Los Angeles." chronicles the literary coffeehouses, cool jazz nightclubs, protest music venus and experimental art galleries of the 1950s and early '60s, and naturally, Travis Edmonson will be a part of it.
“I have every album by Bud and Travis, as a group and their solo albums. They are the absolute best!”
Brian Chidester
February 2008
HARRY JOHNSON in Minnesota is one of those lucky enough to have seen Travis Edmonson perform live.
” I lived in Southern California in the late 1950s and 1960s and enjoyed seeing Bud and Travis perform. I owned and enjoyed their LP albums very much. I'm happy that the music is still available and wish the very best to Travis.”
Harry Johnson
February 2008
CHRIS KELLER in northern California has a special fondness for the two Santa Monica albums, and looks forward to obtaining them on CD from The Travis Edmonson Collection.
”It is so great to see this project. Listening to Bud &Travis were part of my formative years. One of the reasons I studied Spanish was because it sounded so beautiful the way they sang it."
Chris Keller
February 2008
Travis Edmonson's pal OSCAR CISNEROS offers an appreciation of the great man.
“Travis Edmonson is one of Folk Music's living icons. To write all about Travis and his contribution to Folk Music would take hours. His talents abound, not only a wonderful entertainer, guitarist, vocalist but also an artist and writer. Most important of all the man is just a wonderful human being. All of us who've known him have been tremendously influenced & blessed, not only by his gift of music, but by his humility and generosity.
Oscar Cisneros
Thank You Travis Edmonson! For everything. We Love you Travis and I'm speaking for all those who have always given you a standing ovation wherever you have appeared.”
Sincerely,
Oscar R. Cisneros
January 2008
Oscar's wife, Ruthy Cisneros, has taken many wonderful photos of Travis Edmonson and other folk artists, and you won't want to miss them, or Oscar's introduction to them about Kingston Trio Fantasy Camp 2007 at http://www.starmakeraz.com/id92.htm
FRANK OGAZ Senior, whose son has previously contributed to this section of the website, tells about his experiences meeting Bud & Travis.
“ While in the Army stationed in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, it was my pleasure to meet Bud Dashiell, Travis Edmonson and Charlie Gonzalez, as well as attend many of their performances and rehearsals at Don the Beachcombers Restaurant in Waikiki. We established a good friendship and thoroughly enjoyed their talent and presentation of such wonderful songs.
Especially since I am hispanic, I was amazed how they so easily performed the latin songs with such feeling and lack of accent.
I'm happy to have found this wedsite through my son, since my whole family are fans.”
Frank Ogaz Sr.
January 2008
Prof. PAT McCASKY, the entertainer son of legendary harmonica player Stagg McMann, was a teenager during the heyday of the hungry i, where his father was emcee, and Pat got to know Travis Edmonson when he was part of the club's resident group, The Gateway Singers.
”I just performed "On a “Cloudy Summer Afternoon" this past Friday to great applause at a coffee house at the Susquehanna Folk Singing Society in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I always introduce the song with a reference to Travis.”
Pat McCaskey
January 2008
[Pat McCasky refers to himself as a “folk singer from the old school.” To be treated to some samples from his CD, “McCaskey,” check out ttp://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mccaskey.]
The Bud and Travis debut album evokes special memories for MIKE BROWNE in northern California.
”Some 10 years ago I was astonished to hear "Truly Do" in the background of a Northern Exposure episode. I've never forgotten Travis Edmonson's music, and now I just happened to find this site during a random search of the web.
The songs on the Bud and Travis debut album awakened memories of 1960 and the first and longest lasting love of my life, a beautiful blonde girl of 16 who moved to Pasadena from Manhattan, where I lived at the time.
She brought her leather barette, her guitar, and her record collection which included The Weavers, The Limelighters, and Bud & Travis. We attended high school together, and she educated us Southern California provincials that the Kingston Trio was not the alpha and omega of folk music.
Of course, I had heard Bud & Travis already. Cloudy Summer Afternoon was getting a lot of air play on Los Angeles radio, but I thought it was just a one shot hit, until this former east Village bohemian taught me otherwise.”
Mike Browne
January 2008
PETER CLOUD in Arizona has a story many a male Bud & Travis fan will relate to.
”I can't believe I found The Latin Album CD on your website! Bud & Travis were such an inspiration to me in the 60's.
A good friend and I went out and bought matching Framus Classical Guitars to play their tunes and serenade our girlfriends. Sabras que te quiero was our signature song. I can't begin to tell you how many times we listened to the Perspective on Bud & Travis album to get this song right.
`after it's all gone away, all we have left is the song.'”
peter cloud
January 2008
MICK COMBS is one of the many who still remember all the great lines from the Bud & Travis in Concert album, especially the intro to Cloudy Summer Afternoon.
” I love the comments of Bud & Travis during a concert. The most memorable (to me), is after doing "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya'", the remark, "we'd like to do something grim now!."
Mick Combs
January 2007
ROGER KOVACH has been a Travis Edmonson fan since the mid-fifties.
I started going to the Hungry I in San Francisco around 1956. There was a new folk music quartet, The Gateway Singers, performing between sets of the featured artist, and Travis Edmonson was part of that group. He could play elegant Spanish guitar as well as the less intricate styles required for most of the Gateway pieces.
In the fall of 1976 I did my first three week stint for The Institute for Software Engineering, one week in Elmsford, New York, one week in Washington D.C. and the final week in Atlanta. In Washington I was put up in a small hotel on M Street. In the elevator with me was a young man with a guitar case. None other than Travis Edmonson. I exchanged pleasantries with him, , and told him how much I had liked his work at the Hungry i."
Roger Kovach
January 2007
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