Happy Traum






Happy Traum and Artie Traum in 1970.


Happy Traum (born Harry Peter Traum, May 9, 1938, The Bronx, New York City) is an American folk musician who started playing music in the 1950s and became a stalwart of the Greenwich Village music scene of the 1960s and the Woodstock music scene of the 1970s and 1980s. For several years, he studied blues guitar with Brownie McGhee, who was a big influence on his guitar style. Happy is most famously known as one half of Happy and Artie Traum, a duo he began with his brother.[1] They released several albums, including Happy and Artie Traum (1969, Capitol),[2]Double Back (1971, Capitol), and Hard Times In The Country (1975, Rounder). He has continued as a solo artist and as founder of Homespun Music Instruction.




Contents






  • 1 Music career


    • 1.1 Collaborations with Bob Dylan




  • 2 Discography


    • 2.1 Solo


    • 2.2 With Artie Traum


    • 2.3 With Various Groups


    • 2.4 Recordings as a back-up musician




  • 3 See also


  • 4 Notes


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





Music career



Collaborations with Bob Dylan


Traum first appeared on record 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 in the studio at Folkways Records to record an album called Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1.[3] With his group, The New World Singers, Traum cut the first version of "Blowin' in the Wind" to be released (early 1963).[4] Traum also sang a duet with Dylan, who performed under the pseudonym Blind Boy Grunt, on his anti-war song "Let Me Die in My Footsteps". These tracks were re-released in August 2000 by Smithsonian Folkways as part of a boxed set, The Best of Broadside 1962 - 1988: Anthems from the American Underground. Later that year, The New World Singers, which featured Traum, Bob Cohen and Gil Turner, recorded an album for Atlantic Records, with liner notes by Dylan. The album featured the first recording of Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"


In 1971 Happy once again joined Dylan in the studio, playing guitar, banjo, bass, and singing harmony on four songs, which appeared on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II and The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969–1971).[5] Dylan also invited Happy to participate in a famous session with poet Allen Ginsberg, which resulted in the box set Holy Soul Jelly Roll.[6]



Discography



Solo



  • 1970 Bright Morning Stars With John Sebastian, Roly Salley, Richard Manuel and Larry Campbell

  • 1975, Relax Your Mind, Kicking Mule Records KM110 (LP)[7]

  • 1977, American Stranger, Kicking Mule Records KM301 (LP)[7]

  • 1987, Buckets of Songs, Shanachie (CD)

  • 2005, I Walk The Road Again, Roaring Stream Records (CD)[8]


• 2015, "Just For the Love Of It," Lark's Nest Music (CD)



With Artie Traum


1970 Happy and Artie Traum - Capitol Records (LP)


1971 Double Back - Capitol Records (LP)


1975 Hard Times in the Country - Rounder Records (reissued as CD in 2005)


1994 The Test of Time - Roaring Stream Records (CD)


2006 Happy and Artie Traum Live Recordings 1970's and 1980's - Slice of Life Records



With Various Groups


1963 Broadside, Vol. 1 (both solo and with The New World Singers) - Folkways Records (with Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger, The Freedom Singers, and others).


The New World Singers (Happy, Bob Cohen, Gil Turner and Delores Dixon)


1964 The New World Singers - Atlantic Records (liner notes by Bob Dylan)


1966 The Children of Paradise - Columbia Records (single) Happy and Artie Traum, Eric Kaz and Marc Silber.


1972 Mud Acres: Music Among Friends - Rounder Records (reissued on CD 2005) Happy and Artie produced and performed, along with Eric Kaz, Maria Muldaur, Jim Rooney, Bill Keith, John Herald, Lee Berg and Tony Brown.


1976 Woodstock Mountains: More Music from Mud Acres - Rounder (LP) with Happy and Artie, Pat Alger, Eric Andersen, Lee Berg, Rory Block, Paul Butterfield, John Herald, Bill Keith, Jim Rooney, Roly Salley, John Sebastian, Paul Siebel and others.


1978 Woodstock Mountains Revue: Pretty Lucky - Rounder (LP)


1981 Woodstock Mountains Revue: Back to Mud Acres - Rounder (LP)


1987 Woodstock Mountains: Music from Mud Acres - Rounder (CD)


1990 Bring It On Home, Vol. 1 and 2 - Sony Legacy (CD) The "Best of..." Happy and Artie's WAMC Public Radio show.


2000 The Best of Broadside – Smithsonian/Folkways Boxed Set



Recordings as a back-up musician


1971 Bob Dylan's "Greatest Hits, Vol. 2" - Columbia


1971 Allen Ginsberg "Holy Soul Jelly Roll" with Bob Dylan (producer), David Amram, Ed Sanders, et al.


2014 Bob Dylan "Another Self Portrait"


Happy can also be heard on albums with, John Sebastian, Chris Smither, Jerry Jeff Walker, Tom Pacheco, Priscilla Herdman, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Eric Andersen, Rory Block, Maria Muldaur, Peter Tosh, Rick Danko, Levon Helm and many others.



See also



  • American folk music revival

  • Artie Traum

  • Brownie McGhee

  • Bob Dylan

  • Guitarists

  • Banjo



Notes





  1. ^ Talent in Action. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 13 March 1971. pp. 28–. ISSN 0006-2510..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ theband.hiof.no


  3. ^ www.folkways.si.edu


  4. ^ Ruhlmann, William. "Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1". AMG. Retrieved 2011-02-03.


  5. ^ Ruhlmann, William. "Biography: Happy Traum". AMG. Retrieved 2010-05-06.


  6. ^ "Happy Traum Biography". happytraum.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2011-02-03.


  7. ^ ab "LP's issued by Kicking Mule Recordings".


  8. ^ "I Walk The Road Again". Amazon.com. Retrieved 13 May 2010.




References



  • Gray, Michael (2006). The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. Continuum International. ISBN 0-8264-6933-7.


External links




  • http://www.happytraum.com/ Official Website


  • http://www.myspace.com/happytraummusic Happy Traum on MySpace


  • http://www.homespun.com/ Homespun Tapes


  • https://shop.platformpurple.com/?shop=7 Homespun Instant Access downloads


  • http://www.bobdylan.com/#/node/6308 Album Info from "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Volume II" on Bob Dylan's website


  • Happy Traum Interview NAMM Oral History Library (2007)









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