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Chet Helms: From Avenue D to a Street Named “Haight”

Posted on April 13, 2022 by hometown

It’s a California-to-Texas-to-California story, a story of beatniks and hippies, a story of dozens of musicians who performed hundreds of songs that we listened to thousands of times a half-century ago. Chester Leo Helms was born in 1942 in Santa … Continue reading →

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