Coast of California By The Kingston Trio
The original Kingston Trio of Bob Shane, Dave Guard, and Nick Reynolds performs a song from their 1961 album “Goin’ Places,” the last one by the group to include Guard, who was shortly to strike out in his own musical direction. The song was composed by Guard and Texas songwriter Jane Bowers, deriving its melody from an anthem of the Republican faction in the Spanish Civil War entitled “Si Me Quieres Escribir.” The performance is notable for the skillful interweaving by Guard of three distinctively different styles of playing the five-string banjo - frailing, strumming, and Scruggs picking.
The incidents described in the Bowers/Guard lyrics are fabricated and non-historical, and the group was criticized in some quarters for trivializing a song regarded by some as near-sacred.
Duration : 0:2:40
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