Hal Poindexter & The Golden State Boys

This is my video project about Hal Poindexter, one of the most impactful bluegrass artists in the Los Angeles area during the first half of the 1960s. He started the band, the Golden State Boys with his brothers Leon and Walter and their brother in law, Herb Rice, who also happen to be the father of Larry, Tony, Ronnie and Wyatt Rice.
Hal Poindexter recorded a couple of numbers with the Country Boys - a group that would soon would change their name to the Kentucky Colonels.
In the full length video - 1 hr 24 min - Hal shares his first hand encounters with Buck Owens, Clarence & Roland White, Maybelle Carter, the Stanley Brothers, the Rice family, Marty Robbins, Glenn Campbell, Roger Miller, the Gosdin Brothers, Vern & Rex,
Don Parmley, Randy Graham, Scotty Stoneman and many more. Hal talks about famous music venues in LA like the Ash Grove, the Troubadour, the Icehouse in Pasadena, KCOP - TV show Cal's Corral.

Picture sources:
https://dc.library.northwestern.edu/
UCLA Music Archive
National Archives
Library of Congress

Mary Katherine Aldin
David Naiditch
Ash Grove FB
Cal’s Corral FB
Tom Isenhour
Rice Family Album
Hal Poindexter Collection
Caroline Wright
Frank Poindexter
Thomas Aubrunner
Linda Rice


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