I like it when I discover new music via film and television drama. Tonight it was this little number at the end of episode 5 by an artist I'd never heard of before, the late Karen Dalton, a contemporary of Bob Dylan and part of the Greenwich Village 1960s folk scene and a bit of a complex and...
I couldn't help notice there were certain parallels with Manson (also called Charles) and his manipulation of young hippy kids and creating a commune of loyal followers who he could control.
Manson's actions had been thrust into the public consciousness only five years earlier so I wonder if...
In these times of social media, instant messaging, camera phones etc it's not something someone could get away with so easily nowdays. The traveller kids then were much more cut off from their families then, whereas today you can be in daily immediate contact.
Also passports aren't so easily...