Career
They released three albums, Happy and Artie Traum (1969, Capitol), Double Back (1971, Capitol), and Hard Times In The Country (1975, Rounder). Collaborations with Bob Dylan Traum first appeared on record at a historic session in late 1962 when a group of young folk musicians, including Bob Dylan, Philosophy Ochs, Pete Seeger, Peter LaFarge and The Freedom Singers, gathered in the studio at Folkways Records to record an album called Broadside Ballads, Volume 1. With his group, The New World Singers, Traum cut the first version of "Blowin" in the Wind" to be released (early 1963).
Traum also sang a duet with Dylan, who performed under the pseudonym Blind Boy Grunt, on his anti-war song "Let Maine Die in My Footsteps".
These tracks were re-released in August 2000 by Smithsonian Folkways as part of a boxed set, The Best of Broadside 1962 - 1988: Anthems from the American Underground. Later that year, The New World Singers, which featured Traum, Bob Cohen and Gil Turner, recorded an album for Atlantic Records, with liner notes by Dylan.
The album featured the first recording of Dylan"s "Don"t Think Twice, lieutenant"s All Right" In 1971 Happy once again joined Dylan in the studio, playing guitar, banjo, bass, and singing harmony on four songs, which appeared on Bob Dylan"s Greatest Hits Volume II and The Bootleg Series Volume
10 – Another Self Portrait (1969–1971).
Dylan also invited Happy to participate in a famous session with poet Allen Ginsberg, which resulted in the box set Holy Soul Jelly Roll. Originally these lessons were on analog audio tapes, copied from a master tape to a daisy chain of tape recorders, set up on the family dinner table — hence the name "". Nowadays, most lessons are Digital Video Disc video lessons, either sold by post-order as Digital Video Disc, or sold as a computer download.
The "Listen & Learn" series features a book of sheet music/notation packaged with a Civil Defense in cooperation with artists including Richard Thompson, Rory Rock, John Sebastian, Paul Butterfield and Doctor John.
Most lessons available are for acoustic guitar, many oriented toward blues and folk music, but there are also lessons for several other instruments, e.g. fiddle, banjo, bass, et cetera
