Making ROOTS AND BRANCHES: “Travelin’”

“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 was a mainstay in the band’s repertoire during the mid-period of the band’s lineup. “Travelin’ Man” segued into an unnamed instrumental written by Joel…

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