Making ROOTS AND BRANCHES: “Travelin’”

Steve Klingaman standing in sunlit room with windows.

“Travelin’” is the instrumental that follows “Travelin’ Man” as an instrumental journey to follow in the footsteps of the its counterpart. In its incarnation as a featured song of the Montreal band Harlequin in the mid-1970s “Travelin’ Man” was always followed by this roughly five-minute instrumental. Now it’s part of…

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Making ROOTS AND BRANCHES: “Travelin’ Man”

I wrote “Travelin’ Man” in the mid-1970’s for the band Harlequin, which I co-founded with violinist Joel Zifkin while we were students at McGill University. It became a mainstay in the band’s repertoire. “Travelin’ Man” segued into an unnamed instrumental written by Joel and me. The entire dual-song performance clocked…

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