Driftwood played on the Friday night gatherings on the courthouse square in Mountain View through the 1960s and the earliest years of the 70s until the Ozark Folk Center, which he was instrumental in developing was opened in 1973.   He later built his own place and performed there until he was in his 90s. In those later years he could not always remember words to songs but still held audiences spellbound with his stories, the mouth bow and the leaf.

Wayne Raney was back in Arkansas in the 1970s and operating a recording studio in Drasco, a crossroads about 30 miles from Mountain View.