Show inStepWith ! i a had a small child and a funky day job in bar Peter was chinking of putting a group together and I told him about this wonderful funny guy Nod Scookeydoing standiip across die street at the Gaslight Everyone in the Village then had a project walk-uso we rehearsed in my third-floIn 1963 the trio replied or By James Brady p Folkslnger MaryTtavers takes us back to ' Greenwich Village the cM! rights movement m and the early days of Peter Paul f790tfrslM &Mary history’ Dr King human being He let me hold his kid on my lap” e It has been more a decade since the trio released an Grammy-winnin- g material "This one is so album of exciring”Maiy said ofhi There 7brMS"WeVe been cutting back s bit but it takes time and a little wisdom to achieve balance There’s wait a real fHe-tim- all-ne- w the career to satisfy to pay the bills-wwith family there are emotional bills to pay Noel arid I are on the same page about work Peter always works too hard Do her music partners still live in New York? "Nod is up on the ooasc of Maine” Mary said "and his wife works at a school in Massachusetts Peter lives in New York and has a place in Colorado but he’s always flying somewhere” PBS will air a new Peter Paul & Mary documentary in March “Wett been watching footage from die ’60s and 70s” said hile a fbupdisc boated set of their greatest hits USTOVER 40 YEARS AGO THREE young singers— Peter Yarrow Nod Paul Stookey arid a cute single mother Mary Travers— teamed up m a at a Greenwich Village coffee shop called The Bitter End folk music has neverbeen the same On Feb 24 Peter Paul fit Marywill release thieir 21st album 7n These Tmus pliis Bom Now 7 1937 IncMe InlouiMkKy - mf mm IBBmlBIBEBWI BnhhWaUnaiOCH a a a s ii ivwmwi w aa Two daughter— Bio 44 and Alda 37— from previous marriages : including unreleased tracks called Carry lt On Ms Trams had driven into Manhattan from her home in Connecticut to have lunch with me at a Greenwich Village caffe and to talk about the beginnings of her music and about the years since I asked Mary how the group took shape “Tdjust gotten out of a lousy marriage” she Mar Ml A Mm 196 hi the Wind 1963: mBN VVIW INNVNvBIV Ml AMoim 1969 Afcunv1969 1962 Ar U11 kfiMMd vVBi WOTKwn SAAJL lrw3 AJiVy Morig A4g 11BO 1965 Album 17DGL 1967 Mar Mary 1971 Morning Gfary 1972 frunlng 1971 Such is Lov 19S3NoEayMfolf to Ties deny 1986 HoSdiyCafrferition 1988 Rowan and Stonaa 199Q Mar MIA AAomny Tok 1993 UUkm 1995 AroundriwCsmpftw 1991 Songs of Consdancs and Concanvl 999 hTTiaaoTkiM 2004 Carry It OK 2004 PHOTO BY MARC ROYCE FOR PARADE HAM AND MAKEUP IYTM0YHY JOHNSON FOR UTOPIA STYLING BYPENNY LOVEU TOP BY HERARi n’ ' ' ' -i dMaai MImIUw kMomolt Mafy"ahdnyhudiandsaidBo pretty hoc You looked like Julie Christie’” Mary laughed "I told him T wish l had known I was so devastating’” D For more on Mary Travers visit wiwKparadacom and -- dkkon In m Stap With" PAH St Fbbiuary 15 2004 PAGAN |