I don't know if Sam Hinton's still performing, but he occasionally visits various places on the web. I've seen his posts in the newsgroup rec.music.folk.

I'll have to admit I have an Ed Ames album somewhere - I think "The Impossible Dream." He played Daniel Boone's Indian sidekick on the American TV show - I think that's what may have prompted the hatchet throwing on the Tonight Show. He threw a lot of hatchets in Dan'l Boone.