Aztec Two-Step is an American folk-rock

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 band formed by Rex Fowler and Neal Shulman at a chance meeting on open stage at a Boston coffee house, the Stone Phoenix, in 1971. The band was named after a line from a poem that appeared in A Coney Island of the Mind

A Coney Island of the Mind

A Coney Island of the Mind is a collection of poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti originally published in 1958. It contains some of Ferlinghetti's most famous poems, such as "I Am Waiting", and "Junkman's Obbligato", which were created for jazz accompaniment...

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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. Former Maine

Maine

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 State Representative Chris Greeley

Chris Greeley

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 once worked as a light man for the group.

They received the New York Music Award for Best Folk Album in 1986, and have performed on TV and radio programs such as Late Night With David Letterman

Late Night with David Letterman

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, The King Biscuit Flour Hour, and World Cafe

World Cafe

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 Live. A documentary about the band, No-Hit Wonder, aired on PBS in 1999.

Discography

• Aztec Two-Step
• Second Step
• Two's Company
• Adjoining Suites, 1977
• Times of Our Lives
• Living in America
• See It Was Like This...
• Of Age
• Highway Signs
• Live and Rare
• Plums
• Days of Horses
• Time It Was - The Simon & Garfunkel Songbook
• Ghettysburg: Reflections on American Life Rex Fowler Solo Album

External links

• Official web site
• [ Artist page] at Allmusic
• Monarch Music Agency - Aztec Two-Step Booking Agency
• Planet Noise Records Released Rex Fowler's solo album "Reflections on American Life" as well as the Aztec Two-Step Album "Live & Rare"
• Planet Noise Music