Barry Ollman

Hello, friends...

Wishing you all a happy and healthy 2010. Please check back in the next month or two as I've been writing songs and working in the studio lately and I should have a couple of new tunes ready for streaming or free download before long, and several more behind those...

Hope to see you in the new year!

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1/1/2010

Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist

I recently wrote and recorded three new songs which are available for free download in the music section of this site. They feature my longtime friends Nick & Helen Forster of the beloved national radio program Etown, guitar wizard Dave Beegle, and the incomparable David Amram. Hope you like what we're up to!

Collector of Rare Letters, Interesting Autograph Material, First Editions

Over the last 30 years my collection has taken on a focus of American social movements from 1920 to 1970 with particular interests in the handwritten papers, letters, art works, and ephemera of Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, as well as artists and musicians from the early days of rock and roll, and a wide variety of interesting literary and historical papers.

Articles on my collections:
Rock History For Sale
Wild About Woody

Guthrie Gathering

I met a lot of great people—old friends and new—at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, the best kept secret on the musical festival circuit, July 8-12, in Okemah, Oklahoma. I was very happy to make my "Collecting Woody" presentation at the Okemah Historical Society. Hope to see you there next year!

By the way, here are some photos of the Guthrie Festival by photographer Jim Dirden and a musical slideshow in which he featured my song See Ya' in Okemah along with Woody's Road by the late Bob Childers.

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