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ACTON, Calif - There is a strange yet comforting camaraderie that develops amongst neighbors during a disaster, and it was such a fellowship that developed at the Country Pop Festival held here the first weekend in May.
Nearly 50 acts - from Buck Owens to Gordon Lightfoot to Jeannie C. Riley to the Cowsills 38 continuous hours - were promised, but only a handful showed up and no one was paid. Even the deposit checks reportedly bounced.
The festival was to have been held on a tree shaded dude ranch in Soledad Canyon, but was moved (when it was discovered they were outside Los Angeles County and had a county permit) into a barren piece of desert land ankle-deep in dust. And on the second day it rained.
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