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Love the music of Bud & Travis?  then you're sure to enjoy the fabulous STREET MINSTRELS.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="132ac8850.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="133" ALT="The Street Minstrels" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> If you're in Arizona, you can experience their music live, and even have them perform at an event you're arranging.  But music lovers all over the US and beyond can experience the great STREET MINSTRELS sound on CD.  Just go to <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.streetminstrels.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.streetminstrels.com"><U>www.streetminstrels.com</U></A></FONT> to hear them and get ordering info!</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 216 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="cdsale.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bud Travis CD Sale"><IMG SRC="1176d0d00.jpg" border=0 width="208" height="208" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <IMG SRC="1328201e0.gif" border=0 width="32" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> Song writer MICHÈLE VICE-MASLIN recalls how Travis Edmonson gave him a big start in his musical career.</div> <bR> <div> “In August of 1979 I arrived "off the bus" (well the airplane) from New York City and landed at the Sheraton on Interstate10 in Tucson. I was just 18 and started my new life away from "home" and out west dreaming of being a singer and songwriter.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1338aa8a0.jpg" border=0 width="170" height="138" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Well...Who was the first person I met...The One And Only Travis Edmonson!!! (Tucson's Traveling Ambassador Of Good Will as I was told). Travis was performing there on a regular basis. He  let me sing with him that first evening and many many many evenings to come. Travis was a great mentor to me and today I am a successful songwriter and music producer!</div> <bR> <div> THANK YOU TRAVIS!!!!”</div> <bR> <div> Michèle Vice-Maslin</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.sweetersongs.com" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.sweetersongs.com"><U>www.sweetersongs.com</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.myspace.com/sweetersongs" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.myspace.com/sweetersongs"><U>www.myspace.com/sweetersongs</U></A></div> <div> August 2008</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="d76c8140.gif" border=0 width="200" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1328201e0.gif" border=0 width="32" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> GERALD DE CARNELLE, like Bud Dashiell, was born in France and grew up in the US, and is pleased to include the Bud & Travis live CDs to his vast collection.</div> <bR> <div> “Bud and Travis were exemplary entertainers, and highly talented musicians. Although their guitar chords were very cryptic, and difficult to follow, simplified music/chords are on the web.</div> <div>  </div> <div> Starting in 1960, I saw the duo at many venues including the Golden Bear, The Santa Monica Auditorium, The Ashgrove etc .... and also individually at various locales in Hollywood when they split up later.</div> <bR> <div> Please keep up the good work in promoting some of the finest folk music ever!</div> <div>  </div> <div> And Travis, you're the best."</div> <bR> <div> Gerry de Carnelle</div> <div> September 2008</div> <div>  </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="d76c8140.gif" border=0 width="200" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1328201e0.gif" border=0 width="32" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Respectful fan JAMES OTERREAU pays his personal salute to the Bud and Travis Naturally album.</div> <bR> <div> “Bud and Travis Naturally  is the most precious of B&T LPs;  It is criminally undervalued in its musical wealth -- and I can think of no other pop LP from that era that showcases timelessly beautiful duet balladeering.</div> <bR> <div> B&T's contrasting voices (rustic, Smokey-blue vs. polished, shimmering-angelic) and unique guitar interplay were years ahead of their contemporaries.</div> <bR> <div> Like the debut offerings of the Beatles and Bob Dylan, <U>Naturally</U> exhibited an emerging neo-contemporary approach to singing pop songs that keeps much of the LP fresh and ageless 45 years later.  Such sounds are not evident on prior B&T LPs which, like Kingston Trio music, are more representative of that era.”</div> <bR> <div> James Oterreau</div> <div> September 2008</div> <div>  </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="d76c8140.gif" border=0 width="200" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> LISA PENNINGTON in northern California has just  taken advantage of the mega-offer on all eight Bud and Travis CDs.</div> <bR> <div> “Recently I was in a busy restaurant where I could barely hear the music playing, but I was able to pick out the tune enough to realize that it was " Malagueña Salerosa."  I turned to my friend and exclaimed, "Oh, have you ever heard Bud and Travis sing this song?  It's absolutely haunting!"  And I became nostalgic to hear it again.</div> <bR> <div> I grew up listening to that song and, also fondly recalled "Cloudy Afternoon" and "They Call the Wind Mariah."  In fact, I had saved two B&T albums we had had in our family for over 40</div> <div> years!  I had tried my best to lovingly preserve them and longed to hear them again, but of course these days just try to find a turntable!</div> <bR> <div> Anyway, my friend took the initiative to research B&T on the internet and found all the CDs, much to my delight!  Thank you so much for making these songs available again to a very devoted fan.”</div> <bR> <div> Lisa Pennington</div> <div> August 2008</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="d76c8140.gif" border=0 width="200" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> JOAN McDONALD conveys that effervescent feeling that comes from discovering the Bud and Travis catalogue in 21<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" >st</FONT> century editions.</div> <bR> <div> ”I simply cannot tell you how HAPPY I was to discover the Travis Edmonson website!!</div> <bR> <div> Have been enjoying the hot summer evenings listening on my i-pod, to the beautiful Bud and Travis harmony on my back porch--sort of like a stolen pleasure--I had forgotten so many of their songs--it was SUCH a joy to my soul to hear them again! Only wish I had been able to see them perform live</div> <bR> <div> My love affair goes back to when I was about 19--a friend played a Bud and Travis LP for me, and I was immediately bewitched and enamored with their music.</div> <bR> <div> Thinking back--the latin songs/music ignited a great love of the southwest and the language for me--and as a direct result I studied Spanish, and travelled to Spain and several times to Mexico, and the Scottsdale/Tucson area remains my favorite place to visit.</div> <bR> <div>  Truly it has had a direct impact on who I am today, as I love painting pictures of the desert, and since I have retired, want to get better at my rusty Spanish.</div> <bR> <div> I was just given an i-pod for my birthday, and one of my dearest, longest held wishes was to have the Bud and Travis collection on CD, but I didn't know how it could be done.(I still Have the albums)---</div> <div>  </div> <div> As I was scrolling through the i-tunes music store, looking for a rendition of Malagueña Salerosa - my eyes popped out of my head when I saw Travis' rendition available. I literally sat on the back porch and cried at being able once again to hear my most favorite song sung as I remembered it.</div> <bR> <div> I simply can't tell you how much joy I have to know their music is not lost---I was totally unaware that Bud had passed and that Travis was ill.</div> <bR> <div> Travis' unique and powerful guitar and songs plus his beautiful voice - along with Bud's harmony - have meant a great deal to me personally and been a great contribution to the music world.</div> <bR> <div> Thank you for maintaining the website, and for offering the CD's--I thought their music was lost forever."</div> <bR> <div> Joan McDonald</div> <div> August 2008</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="d76c8140.gif" border=0 width="200" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Rick Sohn and Pete Hinds were a wonderful duo who performed many Bud and Travis songs. Rick's widow hosts an annual party, and this year HARRIS GOODMAN joined Pete to recreate some of their great numbers, and he shares a little of the atmosphere with travisedmonson.com.</div> <bR> <div> On Saturday, July 28, Margaret Sohn had her annual summer party, and Pete Hynes, Rick Sohn's old singing partner, was there.</div> <bR> <div> I was prepared with a complete book of Bud and Travis lyrics! We finally sang together! "South Wind", "They Call The Wind Mariah", "Cloudy Summer Afternoon", "Bonsoir Dame", and many others. </div> <bR> <div> We also managed to struggle our way through the Kingston Trio's "Scotch and Soda", though, to be fair, I'm the one who struggled. Those chords are pretty difficult! Pete knew the song like the back of his hand and sang it with ease and confidence.</div> <bR> <div> Later in the evening, as we sat out on Margaret's patio in the back of the house, Pete entertained us with a beautiful acappella rendition of Travis' "The Web".</div> <div>  </div> <div> What a joy to finally be able to sing with this voice I'd become so familiar with through the old "Pete & Rick" recordings. I, and I'm sure, many of Rick friends and family who were in attendance, felt Rick's presence that day."</div> <bR> <div> Harris Goodman</div> <div> August 2008</div> <bR> <div> (Read more from Harris Goodman about the Rick Sohn and pete Hinds duo on Recollections & Comments page <A HREF="comments14.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments Recollections 14">14</A>)</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="d76c8140.gif" border=0 width="200" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> BRUCE TORRENCE is savoring his complete collection of Bud and Travis albums on CD.</div> <bR> <div> “I have been a fan of Bud and Travis since the very early 60's when I first saw them at the Ash Grove in Los Angeles. I probably saw every performance they had at the Ash Grove. At one time, I had all their albums but, for some reason, they have disappeared.</div> <bR> <div> My favorite song they sang was Malagueña Salerosa. </div> <bR> <div> About twenty five years ago, I acquired a Bud and Travis poster and met with Bud, and gave it to him. It wasn't too much later that he passed away."</div> <bR> <div> Bruce Torrence</div> <div> August 2008</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/"><U>http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="d76c8140.gif" border=0 width="200" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Former Latin American correspondent MARTIN HOUSEMAN relates a great tale from the University of Arizona days.</div> <bR> <div> I attended the University of Arizona when Travis did, in the early 1950s.</div> <bR> <div> One night, some other guys and I were in a panel truck driving across campus when we saw the feared and hated campus policeman, Frank Frye, chasing somebody and shouting, "Stop, or I'll shoot your goddamn legs off!" It wasn't unusual for Frank Frye to chase people and shout threats, but this time he had his old .44 sixshooter in his hand like he really meant business. As we neared the Cherry Street exit from campus, one of the guys spotted two people running through the campus cactus garden. "Hey," he said, "we can save those two guys from Frank Frye!" The consensus was that was a good idea. We opened the backdoor, whistled to the fugitives, and two young men, both out of breath, ran up and dove into the panel truck.</div> <bR> <div> Under a streetlight on Cherry Street, we recognized them as "Los Mariachis," two white guys from Nogales who spoke fluent Spanish, played guitars well and were the envied darlings of Sorority Row for their unsolicited post-midnight serenades of sorority houses. One guy was Travis Edmonson, whose acclaimed hell-raising somehow had not compromised his mother's having been named Arizona Mother of the Year, the previous year, based probably upon the accomplishments of his older brothers, a couple of academics, one of whom was a prominent Greek-language scholar. The other guy was Roger Smith, whose daddy had a shirt shop in Nogales where he custom-made cowboy shirts for bull riders and other rodeo performers, entire western bands, etc. A shirt with a Buck Smith label was prized by cowboys and wannabees.</div> <bR> <div> Asked why the hell they were running through the night from Officer Frank Frye, after catching his breath and interrupting himself several times to sort of "blow" like a mule laboring up the trail from the floor of the Grand Canyon, Travis said he was a cultural anthropology major, that the next week was Semana Santa, Easter Week, and he was doing a class project with the elders of a nearby Yaqui village. In order to ingratiate himself with them, he had promised to get plenty of palm fronds for the village's traditional Palm Sunday procession. (The village vegetation was pretty much limited to sage brush.) So they were helping themselves to palm fronds on campus when the ever-vigilant Frank Frye came upon them. His buddy from high school, Roger, also a UofA student, was just helping him. Travis' subsequent musical trajectory is well known.  Roger Smith also made a name for himself as a co-star of the popular 1950s TV series, "77 Sunset Strip," and has been married to Ann Margret for about 40 years."</div> <bR> <div> Martin P. Houseman, San Diego</div> <div> July 2008</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="d76c8140.gif" border=0 width="200" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> RODNEY LOW offers an interesting proposal that many musician fans will applaud.</div> <bR> <div> “Art Yow taught my brother and I to try and figure out some of the Bud & Travis arrangements, but their musicianship is way over my head. For example, it's somewhat possible to figure out the chords of some of their songs, but the chord positions are unique and sound more complex and sophisticated than the basic ones. I think it would be very popular worldwide if Travis' authentic tablature on their arrangements could be made available.</div> <bR> <div> When I listen carefully to their songs, I hear new things all the time and I wonder how they could execute all those different elements on their instruments, while singing harmony! For instance, I notice in Amor de la Calle, Bud will sing the high harmony while Travis sings the melody, then they (effortlessly) switch back.</div> <bR> <div> It's exciting to think about those great arrangements - that they still exist and can be archived and shared! I think they would be of tremendous interest not just to B&T fans but also music aficionados everywhere.  I hope that someday soon, we can enjoy these musical arrangements that are so rich in musicianship and complexity. It really should be taught to new generations of performers.”</div> <bR> <div> Rodney Low</div> <div> July 2008</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="d76c8140.gif" border=0 width="200" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Many fans in southern California will remember NORM SILVERS from his broadcasting days.</div> <bR> <div> “I was a staff announcer at KCBH-FM 98.7 (Beverly Hills transmitter and studio) from the late 50's thru the early 60's .... and we (the announcers who did the folk music programs and segments) often played Bud & Travis on the programs. </div> <bR> <div> And before the two musicians started playing as a duo...I.e. we played a lot of the Limelighters.</div> <bR> <div> I have an original LP of Bud & Travis in Concert in Santa Monica. 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