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By chance I was reminded while scrolling around different folk sites that we are toward the end of the five week stretch when the Kingston Trio ruled the album charts with four LPs in Billboard 's Top Ten in November and December of 1959.

I first read of that in maybe 1987 when I went to a John Stewart show at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica CA, now open for rather more than 50 years, and walked out with a copy of Allan Shaw's et al. The Kingston Trio On Record , still my favorite KT publication. I was stunned to see on the product table the number of CD/albums that Stewart had recorded and released over the years. In Los Angeles then, generally only the highest profile professional musicians got any notice in the LA Times , and it was really only at Stewart's death in early 2008 that the paper paid any attention at all. (To be fair, at Stewart's death the Times finally came up with three or four excellent articles by their best pop music writers.)

So Allan's book with Jack Rubeck and ot