The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #5095   Message #30204
Posted By: Art Thieme
05-Jun-98 - 11:31 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Tune Add: The Julie Plante
Subject: RE: ADD SONG: The Julie Plante
Howdy Joe,

I'm not sure if Lee does this one or not. When I'm off line I'll give him or Joann a call & check it out for you.

What I do have on a tape is a great interview of CHARLIE CARDINAL of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. (Interviewed in the 1980s by Tom Martin-Erickson and Judy Rose (then Woodward) of Wis. Public Radio.) Many years ago Mr. Cardinal made some field recordings for Helene Stratman Thomas collecting for the Library of Congress Folksong Archive. The material collected then is showcased in __Folksongs Out Of Wisconsin__(University of Wisconsin Press--Madison) When Tom and Judy found him he was living in a convalescent home but he was as sharp as a tack. He loved Drummond's dialect poems and recited several for their tape---including "The Julie Plante". His memory for details of lumber camp life and the old ballads (which he recited rather than sang) was truly marvelous. I'd be glad to get a tape of that interview off to you if you wish. Let me know the details of how to get it to you and I'll try to do it before I go to the Mayo Clinic for a visit.

Art