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James Joseph McGuinn III is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He will find fame as guitarist, singer and songwriter Jim McGuinn, a co-founder of The Byrds, who will pioneer folk-rock, psychedelia and country rock. He will change his name in the late sixties to Roger McGuinn.Full article:
Roger McGuinn (aka James McGuinn) : If I go back to when I was a little kid, I would hear the pop singers of the forties and fifties on the radio, The Andrews Sisters, and songs like Clang, Clang, Clang Went The Trolley. I guess I would hear Perry Como, Patti Page, Doris Day. I didn’t pay much attention to music at that age though. It was in the background for me until I was about thirteen.
I’d been playing guitar for a year or so when I started going to my prep school, the Latin School Of Chicago, and I’d gained enough confidence to play some Everly Brothers songs at a high school assembly. The Everlys had beautiful harmonies, great melodies, and it was kind of a crossover of folk and country, which I liked a lot.
My teacher at the Latin School brought in the folk singer Bob Gibson to sing for us, and he turned me from the early rock thing into folk music. I started going to the Old Town School Of Folk Music and I learned how to play the five string banjo and the twelve string guitar. Right after that, I got a little job in a coffee house playing once a night for ten dollars.
I also played at Hootenannies in the Gate Of Horn. I used to hang out there. It was amazing. You’d get up and play for free, just to get the experience. It was a club basically, a hootenanny association of people who organised to play folk songs.
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I’d been playing guitar for a year or so when I started going to my prep school, the Latin School Of Chicago, and I’d gained enough confidence to play some Everly Brothers songs at a high school assembly. The Everlys had beautiful harmonies, great melodies, and it was kind of a crossover of folk and country, which I liked a lot.
My teacher at the Latin School brought in the folk singer Bob Gibson to sing for us, and he turned me from the early rock thing into folk music. I started going to the Old Town School Of Folk Music and I learned how to play the five string banjo and the twelve string guitar. Right after that, I got a little job in a coffee house playing once a night for ten dollars.
I also played at Hootenannies in the Gate Of Horn. I used to hang out there. It was amazing. You’d get up and play for free, just to get the experience. It was a club basically, a hootenanny association of people who organised to play folk songs.
(Source : not known)