California Stars, a visit to California and Los Angeles through postcards
Colorful postcards illustrate the promotion of the West; of California; and Los Angeles and the southern California region from the 1880s to the 1950s.
Betty Uyeda is one of the most creative friends I have known. After a distinguished career as an Archivist at the Seaver Center at the Natural History Museum, Betty has created videos for her Los Angeles Revisited YouTube channel and Instagram.
This is one of her most recent videos that features a beautiful set of century-old postcards that are a point of entry into Los Angeles history. To provide a musical background, Betty chose ‘California Stars‘, a song I recorded for my 2015 album, Radio Songs: Woody Guthrie in Los Angeles. The song features Sarah Watkins who has a wonderful voice and was fun to work with. Thanks, Betty, for letting me be part of your project.
– DH
About Radio Songs: Woody Guthrie in Los Angeles
Featuring guest vocals by Ani DiFranco, Julia Holter and Sara Watkins, Radio Songs offers new arrangements of some of Woody Guthrie’s oldest songs, written primarily during Guthrie’s years in Los Angeles between 1937 and 1939. Holter and co-producer, twice Grammy-nominated Ben Wendel, brought together a talented cadre of musicians for the project including Greg Leisz (pedal/lap steel guitar), Gabe Witcher (fiddle), Dave Kemper (drums), Tim Young (guitar), and Billy Mohler (bass).
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Darryl Holter
Darryl Holter grew up playing the guitar and singing country and rock and roll songs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His current brand of Americana music draws from country, blues and folk traditions and often tells stories about people, places and events.
Besides his music, Holter has worked as an academic, a labor leader, an urban revitalization planner, and an entrepreneur. Darryl Holter is also a historian who has written on Woody Guthrie and a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Darryl Holter grew up playing the guitar and singing country and rock and roll songs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His current brand of Americana music draws from country, blues and folk traditions and often tells stories about people, places and events.