Jerry Rau is from Minnesota. He's done three or four albums. I met him at The North Country Folk Festival in the upper Penninsula of Michigan many years ago, and we realized we were brothers separated at birth. I booked him at a concert series I ran, several times over the coming years, but he rarely had a stable address. He traveled back and forth across the country and while he did regular concert gigs, his real love seemed to be singing on the street. He figured that if you could catch somebody on their way somewhere and get them to stop and listen to a couple of songs, you were doing things right.
Ihave three albums of his and a couple of treasured tapes he shared with me.

Jerry has a great sense of humor. He wrote a song with the opening line: "I wish I was a tree in Nebraska.. at least I wouldn't get lost in a crowd." He sounds enough like Bill Staines that when people hear him singing in another room and can't see him they think it's Bill.

Jerry