{"id":2026,"date":"2017-02-03T22:25:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T22:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hippy.com\/hip\/other\/blackburn-snow\/"},"modified":"2017-02-03T22:25:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T22:25:12","slug":"blackburn-snow-by-shiloh-noone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/reviews\/blackburn-snow-by-shiloh-noone\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackburn & Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blackburn & Snow<\/strong> were a hip duet that appeared in the early mid sixties on the San Francisco music scene in the USA. The group consisted of ex Bakersfield Rebels<\/strong> guitarist-singer Jeff Blackburn<\/strong> & ex Sherry Snow & Geronimo<\/strong> vocalist Sherry Snow<\/strong> who became romantically involved in 1965, living together in Berkeley, California and performing in local clubs.They signed up in Dec 1965 with Kingston Trio<\/strong> producer Frank Werber’s<\/strong> \u2018Trident\u2019 and put out Samuel F. Omar<\/strong> (pseudonym David Crosby<\/strong>) “Stranger in a Strange Land”. Snow <\/strong>was considered by friends in Jefferson Airplane<\/strong> as the replacement for departing Signe Anderson<\/strong> in late 1966, however she chose to remain with Blackburn.<\/strong> The duo contributed to the San Francisco Sound, performing throughout 1965\u201367 at venues such as the \u2018Fillmore Auditorium\u2019, \u2018Avalon Ballroom\u2019 and Marty Balin’s<\/strong> nightclub \u2018The Matrix\u2019. Blackburn & Snow<\/strong> performed at the \u2018KFRC Fantasy Fair\u2019 \u2018and \u2018Magic Mountain Music Festival\u2019, a seminal festival in Marin County, California at the beginning of the Summer of Love.<\/p>\n

In 1966 and into the spring of 1967 the duet released an album of folk rock songs similar to Jefferson <\/strong>with unique harmonic interplay between the couple. Highlights included the sensational \u201cTaking It Easy\u201d, finely harmonised \u201cDo You Realise\u201d and soulful \u201cSome Days I Feel Your Loving\u201d influenced by The Everly Brothers<\/strong> and Beatles.<\/strong> Blackburn & Snow<\/strong> recorded a number of rock songs, backed by Candy Store Prophets<\/strong> initially the backing for The Monkees<\/strong> first album which included Larry Taylor<\/strong> of Canned Heat<\/strong> and future Ventures Gerry McGee<\/strong>. drummer Gary “Chicken”\u00a0Hirsh<\/strong>, later of Country Joe & the Fish<\/strong>) Following a romantic breakup in 1967, Snow<\/strong> joined Dan Hicks & his Hot Licks<\/strong> as a singer. (She later emerged as Halimah Collingwood<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

Blackburn joined Moby Grape<\/strong> in the mid-seventies; with Bob Mosley<\/strong> and later formed the Jeff Blackburn Band<\/strong> which with the addition of Neil Young<\/strong> and Johnny Craviotto<\/strong> became The Ducks<\/strong>, playing a series of impromptu bar gigs in Santa Cruz, California in 1977. During this time, Blackburn<\/strong> co-wrote \u201cMy My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)\u201d with Young<\/strong>. Blackburn <\/strong>continues to perform, based in Santa Cruz with Buck N the Odds<\/strong>. In 1999, the mid-sixties Blackburn & Snow<\/strong> recordings from Trident Productions were finally released as a 20-song compact disc, titled Something Good for Your Head.<\/em><\/p>\n

Added:<\/b> October 19th 2011
\nReviewer:<\/b> shiloh noone<\/a> | See all reviews<\/a> by shiloh noone
\nCategory:<\/b> Music<\/a>
\nScore:<\/b> \"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"
\nRelated Link:<\/b> Seekers Guide To The Rhythm Of Yesteryear<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blackburn & Snow were a hip duet that appeared in the early mid sixties on the San Francisco music scene in the USA. The group consisted of ex Bakersfield Rebels guitarist-singer Jeff Blackburn & ex Sherry Snow & Geronimo vocalist Sherry Snow who became romantically involved in 1965, living together in Berkeley, California and performing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}