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Kingston Trio Member Dead


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Nick Reynolds, one of the founding members of folk group the Kingston Trio, died today at a San Diego hospital. He was 75. Reynolds was in the hospital’s ICU for several weeks before his family made the decision today to take him off life support. As the guitarist for the Kingston Trio, Reynolds performed on the band’s hits like “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?†and “Tom Dooley,†which was a Number One song in 1958 and won them a Grammy. The trio won their second Grammy the following year for their album The Kingston Trio At Large. The band is also credited with helping to usher in the folk movement that ultimately spawned artists like Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan.

“Nobody could nail a harmony part like Nick. He could hit it immediately, exactly where it needed to be, absolutely note perfect — all on the natch. Pure genius,†said Bob Shane, who with the passing of Reynolds is now the lone surviving Trio member. Original member Dave Guard died in 1991 of cancer, and his replacement John Stewart passed away earlier this year from a brain aneurysm. Reynolds is survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters.

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An extremely influential act. Imagining pop music has a "family tree" that branches from the trunk of '60s rock outward into many the music genres of today, their place would be deep in its roots, adding the honesty of folk music.

I would take exception with the above article's assertion that the Trio "spawned" Pete Seeger. At almost 90 years old now, Seeger was a precedent folk act and it was he who wrote "Where Have All The Flowers Gone." Perhaps what the biographer more closely meant was that, after winning their Grammy, the commercial acceptance of the Trio propped open the doors of mainstream record production companies, whose promotion of folk music to a much broader audience allowed obscure folk journeymen like Seeger to at last be recognized financially.

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