Soon after Spencer Bohren received his first guitar in 1964, a friend presented him with a drawing of a sandaled, determined vagabond, obviously bound for some unknown destination. Walking away from the viewer with a guitar slung across his back, that drawing epitomized Spencer's naïve vision of his destiny as a traveling folk singer. As things turned out, he more than got his wish.

Born in wind-swept Casper, Wyoming, in 1950, Spencer's gospel-singing parents provided the foundation... more