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Thread #24183   Message #274321
Posted By: Mark Clark
09-Aug-00 - 12:48 PM
Thread Name: help looking for cowboy songs
Subject: RE: help looking for cowboy songs
Gee, nobody thought of Glenn Ohrlin. He's been mentioned in quite a few threads here. I think Dale Rose is a friend of Glenn's, and probably Art Thieme too. A list of his work may be found here at Johns Hopkins University. Glenn used to come to Chicago for the annual University of Chicago Folk Festival.

In a document about Archie Green I found the following on Ohrlin:

Subseries 4.17. Glenn Ohrlin About 280 items.

Correspondence, interview notes, financial and legal materials, and writings relating to Green's involvement with Ohrlin on a range of projects. Ohrlin, a cowboy musician, performed for the Campus Folk Song Club at the University of Illinois while Green was a faculty advisor. The Club also produced a recording, The Hell-Bound Train, of Ohrlin's music in 1964 for which Green wrote the liner notes. See also Series 6.

Searching the Web didn't turn up much else but I'll bet Glenn would be a wonderful source of material.

- Mark