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One of Those Times in a Life

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In the fall of 2010 while searching for ways to promote new recordings from three separate strands of my career I was inspired to look back on a musical journey of more than 40 years. In the process I realized what a special time and place this is, and began to weave those strands together in songs and stories. These 49 episodes are the resulting tapestry.

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Episode Five

January 4th, 2012

When I Was Young and This Old Guitar Was New

The Concert (video)

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The Mourning Ryde

Audio Essays (audio)

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A Moment to Reflect

Lately it seems that while life may take a long time that it is over much too soon. It is hard to believe that I’ve been singing with Mike McCoy for more than forty-six years and it’s been forty-three years since I started singing with The Brothers Four. One of the things that make this One of Those Times in a Life is that making music and sharing the journey with McCoy and The Brothers Four is more satisfying than ever and while it still feels like the best days might still be in front of us I am also aware of how precious each day and performance is.

The video in Episode Five is called When I Was Young and This Old Guitar Was New. It talks about the many things I didn’t know when this all began as well as a sense of wonder and love I feel at this point in the journey. The audio essay is called The Mourning Ryde. That’s the name of the group McCoy and I were part of in college. The story in the essay talks mostly about the group’s brief brush with fame and fortune.

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Mark and friends playing together

Still singing after all these years…

Here are some recordings of The Mourning Ryde. In December of 1967 we recorded every song we knew in what was called the Big Room at the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity house.

The pictures are of Mike Dwyer, Bruce Goddard, and me taken at my house a few weeks ago. Dwyer was one of our group...

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The first folk group…

The Castaways circa 1963

This is a photo of The Castaways taken in my front yard. My singing partner all through high school, Dan Eaton, is holding the guitar. Joe Allison, is playing the bass. He is also wearing the striped shirt that we wore when we performed. That is me holding an Ode long necked banjo. It is still...

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What Child Is This?

For a number of years there was an annual seasonal album of groups from this area. Christmas in the Northwest raised and continues to raise a lot of money for Children’s Hospital. Here is a song we “contributed” in (I think) 1988.

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The Brothers Four christmas album cover.

Away in a Manger

In July of 1965 The Brothers Four recorded their Merry Christmas album. Over 45 years later their renditions remain heartwarming and timeless. Every once in a while the guys talk about how strange it was to go into the recording studio on a hot summer day in New York City in search of the...

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Six Degrees of Inspiration

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As I think about my musical coming of age that took place...

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