Baxter Taylor:  

After I graduated high school, I spent my first year at college in Austin college in Sherman, Texas. At midterm a guy showed up that played 5 string banjo and introduced me to folk music beyond the Kingston trio. He had a friend in Oklahoma City and that summer, the three of us, Billy Cheatwood, Mason Williams and me, began performing at a coffee house "The Gourd" as the Wayfarers Trio. Over the next few years we made a few trips around the country and made a couple of records for Mercury, attended three different colleges and finally dissolved the group. I went out to be a folk singer on my own: living in Los Angeles, California where I sang briefly with the New Christy Minstrels before relocating to Chicago. While I was there I wrote songs with Shel Silverstein - among them "Marie Laveau" that later became Bobby Bear's unofficial theme song. In 1964, I joined the Army reserves, and after a time on active duty returned to North Texas State University where I got my college degree and got married. When beautiful twin daughters arrived I quit performing and found a more reliable source of income at Sears & Roebuck. I worked there for about 10 years until I figured that the job was not really very satisfying and went back to college to learn something about the buildin...Expand for more