Happy Traum

About the artist

Happy Traum (born Harry Peter Traum in The Bronx, New York City, on 9 May 1938; died 17 July 2024) was an American folk musician remembered for being a stalwart of the Greenwich Village music scene of the 1960s and the Woodstock music scene of the 1970s and 1980s. For several years, he studied blues guitar with Brownie McGhee, who was a big influence on his guitar style. He was known as one half of Happy & Artie Traum, a duo he began with his brother.

Top songs

  1. Let Me Die In My Footsteps
  2. Buckets of Rain
  3. Titanic
  4. I Will Not Go Down Under the Ground (Let Me Die in My Footsteps)
  5. Delia's Gone
  6. Relax Your Mind
  7. When First Unto This Country
  8. Gypsy Davey
  9. Worried Blues
  10. Singing In The Land
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  1. Memories
  2. Poor Howard
  3. Willie Moore
  4. Dark Road Blues
  5. When I Was a Cowboy
  6. Fare Thee Well Marianne
  7. I Will Not Go Down Under The Ground
  8. John Henry
  9. Peggy Gordon
  10. Fair and Tender Ladies
  11. Careless Love Blues
  12. Shebeg An Sheemor
  13. American Stranger
  14. Sporting Life Blues
  15. Boat's Up the River
  16. Weave Room Blues
  17. The Eighth of January
  18. I Am a Pilgrim
  19. Deep Blue Sea
  20. Golden Bird
  21. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
  22. Church Street Blues
  23. Jackhammer Blues
  24. Doney Gal
  25. Crash On the Levee (Down in the Flood)
  26. Blues Ain't Nothin'
  27. Sheebeg and Sheemore
  28. I Ain't Got No Home
  29. Step It Up And Go
  30. I'll Fly Away
  31. Jay Gould's Daughter
  32. Things Are Coming My Way
  33. The American Stranger - Plains of Amerikee
  34. Danville Girl
  35. In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down
  36. Empty Pockets Blues
  37. Sailing Down My Golden River
  38. I Walk The Road Again
  39. In the Pines
  40. Tennessee Waltz
  41. Off To Sea Once More
  42. High Muddy Water
  43. The Water Is Wide
  44. Times A-Getting Hard
  45. Fare Thee Well, Marianne
  46. It's Good To See You
  47. Mississippi John
  48. Morning Blues
  49. The American Stranger (Plains of Amerikee)
  50. Friends And Neighbors
  51. Sally Ann
  52. Pinto Pony
  53. Betty & Dupree
  54. Spanish Is the Loving Tongue
  55. The American Stranger
  56. Carolina in My Mind
  57. Mama Don't Low
  58. Farewell
  59. I Shall Be Released
  60. Theres a Bright Side Somewhere
  61. Pretty Boy Floyd
  62. Blues Aint Nothin
  63. New York Town
  64. Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies
  65. Mary I'm Comin' Back Home
  66. Tuning
  67. Silver City Bound
  68. Monday Morning Blues
  69. Love Song to a Girl in an Old Photograph
  70. Bright Morning Stars
  71. Santa Cruz Blues
  72. Dry Bones
  73. Living with the Blues
  74. Mary, Im Coming Back Home
  75. He Was a Friend of Mine
  76. G Run Boogie
  77. Bad Luck Blues
  78. Let Me Die In My Footsteps [aka "I Will Not Go Under The Ground"]
  79. Under the Double Eagle
  80. Handful Of Love
  81. Endings
  82. G (Flatt) run
  83. Hills Of Isle Au Haut
  84. The Bounty Hunter
  85. Blues Ain't Nothin
  86. Betty and Dupree
  87. How Are Things in Glocca Morra?
  88. Buckets of Rain - Tim Timebomb and Friends
  89. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
  90. Mama Don't Low Solo

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