Once upon a time....three musicians sat in an apartment in Rogers Park(Chicago), wondering what to name our new music store. Anne Hills, Doug Rice, and yours truly. Over a six-pack, or two, of hieleman's special export, we had been singing the old timey country standard The Hogeyed Man. "Hogeye Music" followed. A name like that would be hard to forget. Easy to remember...every trucker that drove down Central St., every delivery person,banker, police, emergency, etc. knows the shop.
   Months after opening, the late George Armstrong brings us a gift...a hog phrenology chart illustrating the body parts of a male hog (boar), with the additional tidbit of knowledge that in Celtic loar, the word hogeye means an erect penis,
   So for those of you who would like to hear this in American music, check out the version by sung by Mike Seeger and the New Lost City Ramblers, among many others.