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Archival interview with folk musician Happy Traum

In an archival interview from 2010, folk musician Happy Traum, who died this month at the age of 86, sat down with WAMC’s now retired Alan Chartock. Live at the Linda, Traum tells us how he got the name “Happy,” how he got into folk music, and relives the folk craze of the 60s.

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