Bob Frank and John Murry

Folksinger Bob Frank was born and grew up in Memphis, where he began playing in coffeehouses in the early '60s. He briefly attended Vanderbilt University before being expelled for playing his guitar in the dorm. He earned a degree in English from Rhodes College in Memphis in 1966. He was then drafted into the Army, and his two-year stint included a tour of duty in Vietnam. After getting out in 1968, Frank moved around, working on a ranch in Colorado and a cannery in Washington state, and living on communes in Northern California. He counted himself "one of the original hippies...