The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #52025   Message #846376
Posted By: Art Thieme
12-Dec-02 - 09:35 PM
Thread Name: Current listening
Subject: RE: Current listening
NO, Chris,

I've not heard that song. But I had 3 e-mails from Andrew in the last 24 hours. (Funny you should tell me this right now.)

BUT Andrew, when young, wanted to BE John Prine. He would play at the hoots at Somebody Else's Troubles (a Chicago bar/folk club in the 70s) and it was almost humorous; other singers would sometimes heckle him. It didn't quite come to blows one night when I told some guys to pipe down & let the kid work it all out. I could hear the poet he was gonna be. Mr. Calhoun was better every time I saw him back then.

(Back then it was terribly important to have all those open stage hoots where we could have the luxury of being bad. Hopefully, we were getting better as time passed. And the food & booze was free to the singers then. Those places kept some of us alive.)

But I'll ask Andrew about that song. Was it on a record???

Art Thieme