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Rich with tradition, reaching into adventurous jazz and rock forms, the music of guitarist and composer Artie Traum is the story of contemporary acoustic music - from the heady days of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s through the explosive growth of guitar music into a contemporary American art form with roots of its own.
Traum's music begins in New York but wanders back in time from there.
Born in the Bronx in 1943, Traum took a liking to folk music and began playing banjo in the style of Pete Seeger.
Guitar chord magic artie traum biography
Working through old-time banjoists like Roscoe Holcomb to technical masters Don Reno and Earl Scruggs, Traum eventually moved on to acoustic guitar and found it offered even greater variety. He says, "I learned how to play from my older brother Happy, who was listening to people like Big Bill Broonzy and Brownie McGhee.
He would take the subway down to Harlem and take lessons from McGhee.
"In one night in New York you might be able to go out and see