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Andrew Calhoun is a member of that wonderful class of folk performers , the story teller. I listen to his voice and songs and hear Stan Rogers, Woodie Guthrie and Dick Gaughin all master story tellers everyone of them.

So once again all we have here is a voice and a guitar (with occasional other things) on the MySpace here is a wonderful song that Andrew record back in the mid Nineties called “Journey”. Just a voice and guitar but what a tale.

Here is a quote from Andrew…

When I was young I would do shows of almost all my own songs, plus usually a Scots song in dialect. These days it matters less to me whether I wrote the songs I sing. For the last couple years I’ve been researching African-American spirituals and secular folk songs, acquiring many rare and out of print books. This has resulted in the Bound to Go CD, and Campground, the band

I remember going into town on a Sunday night here in Melbourne in the early Seventies to hear the late John Graham. He too had just a voice and a guitar but he gave me a taste for story songs that I find I haven’t lost and that Andrew satisfies quite nicely.

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