Marzine's monstrous band tours the east coast.

Marzine’s Moonstruck band sold out Sardel’s Crab Shack on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi for the third night straight.

The humidity and sea salt in the club made the strings on Gantry's stand up bass curl over, creating a different pitch when he played it at a certain angle, that inspired the Turfula pluck a little harder on her harp, winking her one eye to Marinze on the banjo, sending the band into darker territory than they were used to.

During one show in Texarkana, Turfula's fake eyeball tumbled out into the crowd. It rolled onward towards the back of the shitty little dive, when a kind soul picked up the eyeball, gave it a spitshine with his hankerchief, and tossed it to a waiting Turfula on stage who caught it and instantly launched into "Herhsel, Black Jack and the train who made him."

In Tupelo, MS they burned through a incendiary set where legend has it, a young Elvis Presley was in the audience. Later on that night, they swam in the Gulf of Mexico, caught crab and then slept on a barge. The next day they had an impromptu jam session with a young Elvis Pressley, home on a weekend pass from the military.

Elvis would later refer to this experience while shooting "Blue Hawaii."

The tour then took them to Brooklyn, where they opened up for Woody Guthrie at a small show just outside his Mermaid Avenue home. She smoked and joked with Woody, as Marzine is taken by his sense of storytelling, is enraptured in the way Woody manages to recapture the lost spirit of a dying America. Woody would go on to famously coin Marzine as having a temperament that's "As sweet as apple pie and as dark as molasses."

That night Marzine saw the power of her music and saw the strong-armed political war machine her guitar could become, if only she would let it. The meeting changed how she approached music from there on in, and her next series of shows were pro-union affairs.

12 years pass by. McCarthy and his commission on Unamerican Activities opened a file on Marzine, after discovering the connection between her and Woody Guthrie.

This led to Marzine being eventually roped into the whole red scare phenomenon. While not exactly having to testify for the committee for non-American activities, she felt the heat of the backlash, as protesters turned out in droves, as she was once seen with Guthrie after that show in Brooklyn. But this was before the demise of her first husband, a pre folk hero and union organizer, who helped Dylan find his sound in the coffee shops of Greenwich Village.

Edward Martin was killed in early 1960 of mysterious circumstances as many historians now believe that Ed was killed by J.Edgar Hoover's flunkies. As a union organizer, Ed's office was a frequent target of anti-Communist groups. Prior to his death, his office had been broken into and vandalized several times. Marzine was on tour at the time, and her husband’s sudden death removed her from the public spotlight for the next 12 years.