I made somewhat the same mistake, perhaps thirty years ago. By comparing my performance with Linda's, I do NOT mean to imply that were are/were in the same league. I'm small potatoes, and prefer it that way.

The scene was a very high end "Country Club" in my town. I was the hired "folksinger" to entertain during dinner. This was shortly after the American "Bi-Centenial Year," and a lot of money had been spent in small towns across America on singers like me, presenting our historical folksongs. That year, the late (and great) John Dwyer and I had been performing a lot, doing typical NorthWest ballads, including many Wobbly and Labor songs.

As I was planning my program, I realized that I had a captive audience of the "enemy", if you will: the managers and bosses of the lumber mills and factories that were so strong in my town's early history. So I decided to educate them a little.

I planned a program of probably a half hour of typical Pacific NorthWest ballads as sung by our settlers. BUT ... every third song, I'd slide in a robust "anti-bosses" song, usually from the "Little Red Song Book." I'd have them singing along, full volume with "This Land Is Your Land," then I'd let them have "Pie In The Sky."

OH .. IT WAS SWELL!!!

They didn't know what to do, and I enjoyed myself thoroughly. And I also paid the price! It took me six weeks to get my $200 bucks, and I was never invitied back.

Did I feel a little guilty ..... NAW. CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson