...I think I ended the piece I wrote saying that I figure as how I sing/sang folksongs about 60% of the time. The other 40% of the time I sang folk-type songs and singer/songwriter songs written in that older style because those songs depicting and of the past were the ones I am/was drawn to.-----I also noted that if Barry Bonds, with or without steroids, had done as well, he'd've hit 600---and that's not too shabby. That made me a folksinger 60% of the time-----and something else the rest of the time! ;-) Still, I was proud of the fact that I was a folksinger and even prouder to be a part of FOLK LEGACY RECORDS and the amazing doings of Sandy and Caroline Paton there in Sharon, Connecticut.

And watch for two new CDs from moi on Folk Legacy real soon!! (I'm pleased as punch about that too.)

One is produced by Dennis Cook. It will be called CHICAGO TOWN AND POINTS WEST. There will be a song from Scotland on it too because I figure that if ya go West from Chicago, eventually you might get to Scotland.

The second CD is to be called ON THE RIVER and it's a composite of my river cassette I made when I sang on the Mississippi Steamboats---with some tracks from my older Art Thieme--LIVE AT WINFIELD, KANSAS recording ("The Great Turtle Drive" etc).

Sorry about the thread creep but Alanabit's very nice comments got me to thinking this might be a good place for some unabashed self promo.

Onward and upward,

Art Thieme