The Folk Rock Podcast of Shaolin Records is a weekly radio program featuring the "Best and brightest folk rock of California and Beyond."
Listen each week for a new and exciting show of today's finest folk rock music.
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About the Host
Coyote learned his first guitar chords from Dean Millikan of the Christie Minstrels. Coyote then spent the next decade playing to radio songs and performing songs he learned from his collection of 45s and LPs, playing by ear.
Although Coyote was classically trained on piano and trombone, he gave up sight reading when he started songwriting. "My first songs were all written out, with occassional bass riffs and drum rhythms notated," explains Coyote. "But it would take me a lot of work to read it now and be able to play it. I gave up sight reading in 1966 when I traded in my trombone for a Fender Mustang guitar."
When Coyote purchased his nickel plated flute in 1975, he also picked up a "How To Play Flute" book. Utilizing his sight reading skills well enough to learn all the notes of the flute, this would be Coyote's last time working with sheet music.
When Dean Millikan rented Bonita Recording Studios to cut some song demos for his current band, Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, he was surprised to find Coyote as the studio staff producer and impressed with Coyote's improved guitar skills. "I don't know if they rerecorded those songs we cut, or used them on their Kenny Rogers album, but I was very very proud to cut a guitar track on both their songs. This was a year after Kenny'd had that hit, "Ruby," and one of the songs was a sequel to that story. I cut a really smooth velvetty lick on that song with my Gibson 335 with a Bigsby tailpiece. The floating trapeze syle I think it was called. I installed it myself. The other song, "Saturday Night," I cut a slide guitar part on."
Thanks for being here where folk rock is. For twenty years I've been playing music that people can't categorize -- because it's folk rock, and folk rock doesn't exist anymore. Well, since I exist, and my folk rock exists, we've decided to rebuild the music category of folk rock so I have a place for my music, and others, like myself, who have some folk spirit, but also have some rock'n'roll balls, can have a marketplace for their folk rock music also.
Coyote of American Zen
Host of Folk Rock Podcast of Shaolin Records
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"The Best and Brightest Folk Rock of California and Beyond."
Listings of folk rock clubs and folk rock artists, chosen by The Hippy Coyote of American Zen, are provided here for the benefit of all folk rock artists and folk rock fans.
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Many artists of californiaFOLKROCK.com are featured artists of the Folk Rock Podcast of Shaolin Records.
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