Well, you get the idea. This was happening in Chicago in 1937. The WLS Barn Dance had been going since the 20s. Bradley Kincaid, a fine singer of roots folk songs, was a big part of it early on. So wa Doc Hopkins and many others---Bob Atcher - the singing cowboy could, and sometimes did, sing traditional cowboy ballads and songs. (Later on he was the mayor of Schaumburg, Illinois for 20 years and presided over that area Northwest of Chicago's tremendous growth--out by the Woodfield Mall.)

Things were "folk" in the simple way anything was "folk" in those early days. It wasn't urbanized yet like the sophisticated bar scene of Chicago in the 1960s and 70s was thought by those who were there then to be pretty hip and the only place to "be".

As Bruce Phillips has said, It was "good though".

Art Thieme