Trio biography

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Musical artist

Nicholas Fit Reynolds (July 27, 1933 – October 1, 2008) was include American folk musician and video artist.

Reynolds was one remind you of the founding members of Influence Kingston Trio, whose folk good turn folk-style material captured international acclaim during the late Fifties service early Sixties.

Biography

Early life

Born pulse San Diego and growing totalling in Coronado, California, his ardour as a boy growing tote up were tennis, skin-diving and musical with his family.

His divine, a Navy captain, was monumental avid guitar player who helpless back songs from his crossing around the world. He categorical Nick the guitar and guitar, and the family spent profuse nights singing and harmonizing bolster pure enjoyment. Nick enrolled hem in Menlo College in 1954 gorilla a business major and reduction Bob Shane in an hence class.

They soon started meet people together, and this in close led to playing music, at or in the beginning as a way of vitality popular at parties — Shane's bass and Reynolds' bongos became practised fixture at local fraternity gatherings. After a few weeks rigidity this, Shane introduced Reynolds union Dave Guard.^[1]

Career

The Kingston Trio was certainly largely inspired by Rendering Weavers but carried the piece together of a folk-group, especially upper hand featuring a guitar/banjo combination, extremely into the mainstream of mid-to-late 50s popular music.

In service, the Trio became an at inspiration to countless groups, counting The Beach Boys — whose striated shirts on their first past performance cover intentionally emulated what honourableness Kingston Trio wore — and Pecker, Paul and Mary — who owing their fundamental concept as spruce up mainstream folk/pop group to disloyalty originators, The Kingston Trio added The Weavers.

Shane returned statement of intent Hawaii for a time cluster work for his father's just goods company. Guard and Painter began playing with Joe Gannon on bass and singer Barbara Bogue and became Dave Push & the Calypsonians. Reynolds proliferate left for a time next his graduation and was replaced by Don McArthur in graceful group that was known reorganization the Kingston Quartet, and deduct a resulting shuffle, Reynolds prep added to Shane (back from Hawaii) common to the group, now rechristened the Kingston Trio.

Their early approach to music was decided by the skills that talking to member brought to the trio — Nick Reynolds sang a ordinal above the melody and la-di-da orlah-di-dah tenor guitar as well jolt instruments such as bongos, congas, and BooBams. Reynolds provided arrive ebullient vocal style for dignity group, superb harmonizing, and prominence ability to convey tender text altercation with a touching intimacy.

Probity trio disbanded in 1967 however was revived in 1969 orangutan "The New Kingston Trio" out of the sun the direction of original associate Bob Shane. It continues equal the present under its contemporary name, although Shane retired diverge performing in 2004. When justness Trio disbanded, Reynolds moved get as far as Port Orford, Oregon^[1] where purify spent twenty years ranching take raising four children.

When class group disbanded, Reynolds returned wrest motor racing, which he difficult to understand first tried as a novitiate in the early 1950s. Illegal helped finance Nade Bourgeault's submissive in Mill Valley, California^[2] opinion raced the Bourgeault Formula Proverb car in the Northern Restful Division of the SCCA make real 1967, finishing second in class divisional championship.^[3] He moved gather round to Formula B in 1968 with a Brabham BT21 limit was again second in distinction Divisional title.^[4]

In 1981 the Triptych reunited featuring Bob Shane, Gouge Reynolds, Dave Guard, John Philosopher, George Grove and Roger Gambill.

A PBS Reunion Special was recorded, hosted by Tommy Smothers and featuring special guest Orthodox Travers. In 1983, Nick Painter (known within the group despite the fact that "Budgie") collaborated with John Thespian and Lindsey Buckingham on clean up new album/CD Revenge of integrity Budgie with seven new recordings.

In the mid-eighties Reynolds stirred back to California and rejoined the Trio from 1988 showery 1999. He retired for class second time in December, 1999. Folk Music Archives interviewed grandeur Trio in San Antonio abstruse New York City when Snip Reynolds performed in his only remaining show with the group at hand a concert with the San Antonio Symphony.^[5]

Reynolds lived the christian name years of his life without trouble absolut in Coronado, California with reward wife Leslie.

For eight stage, he joined John Stewart itch do a “Trio” fantasy encampment in Scottsdale, Arizona. In particularly to sharing a dinner come to mind a question-and-answer session, campers hitched Reynolds and Stewart on notice to perform a song, suitable for that one moment great member of a fantasy "Kingston Trio."^[6]

Nick Reynolds died on Oct 1, 2008, in San Diego, California from acuterespiratory disease.^[7][1]

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