Just came across this thread by total serendipity. Sometehing set me thinking about a song Nic Jones used to sing, "the jukebox as she turned", and that got me trying to find out something about the man who wrote it, one Jeff Deitchman, so I tried looking on Spotify, and the only thing that showed up was his name as a backing singer on a track on a record called Life's Trolley Ride by this man I'd never heard of called Jonathan Eberhart. And when I did that I was blown away by his voice and his songs.

So I googled him, and up came this thread. And he turns out to have been an amazing man. Folk music is full of these geniuses who are unknown outside a circle of people who appreciate them properly.

So to anyone who knew him who opens this old thread again, congratulations. And to anyone who's never heard of him, I urge you to rectify that.