The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with anORIGINAL lineup ofDave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. ItROSE to international popularity, fueled by unprecedented sales of 33⅓ rpm long-playing record albums (LPs), and helped to alter theDIRECTION of popular music in the U.S.[1] ==Formation, 1954–1957==