I was picking at a festival in Middletown, Connecticut back in the very early '80's I think. Lisa Null rwas behind it. Alex was there and I was in charge of taking him on his booze runs to the liquor store because he couldn't get used to driving on the "wrong" side of the road. Actually, I knew of him from an LP I'd bought very inexpensively ($1.98) in a supermarket in Depoe Bay, Oregon in 1967 or '68. I loved his songs. He showed me it was O.K. to sing songs that others had tired of if one did them honestly and simply and in a straightforward manner with honest real conviction.

Old chestnut songs and even older jokes were always a part of my serious repertoire----a lesson I learned well from Alex Campbell.

Art Thieme