He's always helping folk. And I kind of thought, what can I do? Because I'm not cut out in the same way as they are. They're from nursing backgrounds, whereas I thought, what's my talent or ability?
Folk music always had a propensity for elevating the common man – from sweet baby James, alone in his saddle, to the narrator of “Clay Pigeons,” riding the bus next to a “lady with two or three kids” ...
With his distinctive, high-pitched voice and laid-back melodies, Arthur Ahbez leans hard into the psychedelic-tinged California sound of the late Sixties.