About Lafe
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I’m Lafe (short for Lafayette; rhymes with “waif”), born on a Vermont farm and raised on jacked deer and food stamps. I picked up the guitar at 13 and soon hit the road, sleeping under a set of stairs at Goddard College and crisscrossing the United States by thumb and boxcar. I managed to finish high school at an alternative school, mostly for street kids, and became lead singer in Chesterfield, a country rock band. Soon we changed the band’s name to the Harbour Hidaways to accommodate a restaurant that offered us a steady gig if we’d adopt its name. Given the artistic principals we held at the time, we immediately agreed. Before long, the band was playing 4 and 5 nights a week. |
| In the summer of 1980, the city of Burlington hired me to play while walking up and down Church Street every Saturday. Nobody listened for more than a minute or two, so I made up words constantly. Bob Dylan would shoot me if he knew what I did to "Blowing in the Wind." I’ve been writing songs ever since. | 
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I met Mark Greenberg (Grammy nominated producer and
owner of Upstreet Productions) in 1972, when he was the director of
the alternative high school. He converted me from a guitar "banger"
to a finger- and flat-picker by showing me Reverend Gary Davis songs,
Doc Watson tunes, and other tradition-based goodies. I became a "dropped
D tuning" addict. Eventually, Mark and I became "Blue Moon,"
playing weddings, coffee houses, restaurants—anywhere people
would listen. Once we even waded through a river to get to a gig.
We've been playing off and on for 30 years now, much of it in our
living rooms until recently. Mark now tells people we've just “come
out of retirement.
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I’ve just finished my first recording—the CD “Am I Gone” (all originals), which Mark produced as well as played a bunch of instruments on. Our friend Coco Kallis (of Lonesome Road Band fame) sings on it too. I never took the plunge to play full-time, so making an album seemed like a "wannabe" thing. Now it seems strange I didn't do it 30 years ago.
If you’d like to know more about me, my music, or how to hop a freight train, contact Lisa Lindner at:
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photo by Mark Greenberg |
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