Shane Bob

American singer and guitarist who was a founding member of The Kingston Trio. In that capacity, Shane became a seminal figure in the revival of folk and other acoustic music as a popular art form in the United States in the late 1950s through the mid-1960s. The success of the Kingston Trio in its heyday had repercussions far beyond its voluminous album sales (including four albums simultaneously in the Top 10 in 1959), its host of imitators, and the relatively short-lived pop-folk boom it created. For the Kingston Trios success took acoustic folk-based music out of the niche market it had occupied prior to the Trios arrival and moved it into the mainstream of American popular music, opening the door for major record labels to record and market both more traditional folk musicians and singer-songwriters as well. Shane was married for 23 years to the former Louise Brandon; they had five children. The marriage ended in divorce and he remarried in 2000 to Bobbi Childress. He died on 26 January 2020 at a hospice facility in Phoenix, Arizona at the age of 85. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less