Putah Creek Crawdads
announce their new CD
Going Back
 
‘You get a line, I’ll get a pole....’
 

Chip (christened and formally known as Oliver) Northup,(lead vocals and guitar) besides being a charter member of the Davis Unitarian Universalist Church where the Crawdads got their start, is one of the "founding four" of the Putah Creek Crawdads.

His folk singing career got its start when, around 1961, he took a few (a very, very few) group folk guitar lessons through the Davis Arts Center. 

A lawyer by profession, he now specializes in criminal appellate defense of indigents by court appointment.

His hobbies, past and present, in addition to the Crawdads, include hiking in the wilderness, walking anywhere, writing poetry, fiction and memoir, not for publication, all kinds of reading, movie going, and TV watching.

He is the father of two daughters and four sons, a dozen grandchildren, and (for the present) two great grandchildren.

With the guidance of his lovely spouse, Claudia, he has finally learned the secret of a happy marriage -- always say "yes."