I doubt that "1601" is on the current set of CD's. Dyer-Bennet really enjoyed bawdy party songs with his friends and relatives in Maine and Long Island but we were all shocked when he finally recorded some of them, on the flip side of Mark Twain's "1601." He was probably rebelling at the time against some of his critics who suggested he was cleaning up traditional songs.

Then, he used to go to some of the rent parties at Almanac House and swap songs with Guthrie, Seeger and Leadbelly. Must have been a blast.