Jim Craig, owner operator of Hogeye Music store in Evanston, Illinois does a very nice smoother-than-most version of Goofus while picking the hell out of his 6-string. Jim, to my mind, has the best voice ever to come out of the Chicago folk scene over the last 40 years or so. He has always reminded me of Cisco Houston's best solo vocalizing (means without Woody)---but better.

Wayne King was from the Mississippi River town of Savanna, Illinois, a place where I often disembarked the steamboat Julia Belle Swain that I played on for ten years. I'd wait there for fifteen minutes or so until the boat Twilight came along and picked me up to do a show for their passengers as well. Good memories.

Art Thieme