Rick is back on the air!! Tonight! 17 March 2008

Subject: RE: Rick is back on the air!! Tonight! 17 March 20
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 08:02 PM

And Steve Fruitman says the show will be at www.backtothesugarcamp.com, probably on Wed.

Subject: RE: Rick is back on the air!! Tonight! 17 March 2008
From: Fortunato
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 08:02 PM

fun stuff. Midnight special was very cool.
thanks ciut, Heather, et al.

regards,
chance shiver

Subject: RE: Rick is back on the air!! Tonight! 17 March 2008
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 08:03 PM

Almost like old times!!

Thanks, Heather and all!!

Subject: RE: Rick is back on the air!! Tonight! 17 March 20
From: Duke
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 09:10 AM

Although I enjoyed the show very much, it was a little sad to hear Rick once again. I knew him years ago when he was single and we hung out together for a while. We had a mutual friend, Alan McCray, who had passed on and we enjoyed remembering him and his music. As things happen, we lost touch with one another although I always knew what he was up to. The last time I saw him was when David Rae came into town and I saw Rick at the concert. We chatted a bit, but I spent the rest of the night with David. I think that it would be a great idea for Rick to "appear" on the radio show every once in a while. Or every week for that matter.

Subject: RE: Rick is back on the air!! Tonight! 17 March 2008
From: Peter T.
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 09:45 AM

thanks to all Mudcat listeners, it was fun -- and Steve has hundreds of hours of material. I was reminded just how long Rick had been doing the show, and the encyclopaedic range of his knowledge. And doing what he loved to do....

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Rick is back on the air!! Tonight! 17 March 2008
From: kendall
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 10:22 AM

I missed it...damn.

Subject: RE: Rick is back on the air!! Tonight! 17 March 2008
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 10:50 AM

See if it really comes up on SugarCamp on Wed, Kendall

Subject: RE: Rick is back on the air!! Tonight! 17 March 2008
From: Big Mick
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 01:12 PM

You are welcome very much!!! I am very happy that everyone got to hear it. I was performing and couldn't tune in, but I will be anxious to hear it on Sugar Camp.

Glad to have been of service.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: Rick is back on the air!! Tonight! 17 March 20
From: GUEST,Heather Fielding
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 08:40 PM

You know Rick never wanted to record his show, it just wasn't his thing, and Steve never meant to record them, he just kept the tape running. We only have half of every show but it's so lucky that we have anything at all and I'm thrilled and thankful that Mr. Fruitman remembered what he had in his archives.

Steve will have that on his website on Wednesday, he said he would and he's very good about these things.

Steve told me after the show that he had perhaps as much as three hundred hours of Rick's show, he has it in chronological order but doesn't know who is on which tape. He is retiring next year and one of his projects will be to sort this out and transfer it to digital, so I think there will be more to come.

Cheers,

Heather

Subject: RE: Rick is back on the air!! Tonight! 17 March 20
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 09:13 PM

Oh, what a gift! So many will be glad to hear some of those. It's probably good that time has passed....

Subject: RE: Rick is back on the air!! Tonight! 17 March 20
From: BigAl
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 09:18 AM

I was taken back about 30 years on Monday night when I heard the tape of Rick singing Victoria--in French no less--popularized by Garolou on their eponymous 1976 album release. Garolou was formed by the Lalonde brothers, Marc and Michel, from Cornwall. Marc and I lived together in Montreal in 1972 after we put together a blues band to play the only hotel in Riviere Baudette on Highway 2 near the Ontario border--"the last hotel in Quebec" as we called it. Marc introduced me to his brother Michel, who was fascinated by the fingerpicking I had picked up from listening to old Dave Van Ronk records in the 60s and demanded that I teach him how to do it. I still remember the smile that spread slowly across his face as he finally got it, his thumb alternating rhythmically on the bass strings while his fingers walked the others. What joy! In the fall of 72 I went to grad school and we retired our blues band, but Marc and Michel went on to great success in the folk idiom with Garolou. I had the chance to play with them two years later when they had teamed up with Steve Merritt and his touring circus wagon in Merritt's Chautauqua project in Alexandria. Great to hear the song again.

Subject: RE: Rick is back on the air!! Tonight! 17 March 2008
From: Peter T.
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 11:09 AM

Don't you just love Mudcat! Where else would you get the inside dope on Garolou.....?

yours ever,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Rick is back on the air!! Tonight! 17 March 20
From: GUEST,Steve Fruitman
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 06:57 PM

The Program from Monday Night is now on line at
http://www.backtothesugarcamp.com/campstreams.html [Link Fairy]

Steve Fruitman

Subject: RE: Rick is back on the air!! Tonight! 17 March 20
From: Jeri
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 07:19 PM

Thanks loads, Steve!
It was great to listen on Monday, and I'll probably listen again. It's amazing you recorded him at all, but those of us who miss him thank you profoundly for sharing.

Subject: RE: Rick is back on the air!! Tonight! 17 March 2008
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 May 08 - 03:00 PM

How kewl is this? I was sitting in my office working on jewellery while listening to www.hober.com internet radio when WHO do I hear but Rick playing his own "Rag, eh?" I have the Lifeline CD with it, but it's just neat that his music shows up like this, as well as those other Mudcatters who are on hober radio.

Ta, Rickdarlin'!

Subject: RE: Rick is back on the air!! Tonight! 17 March 2008
From: gnu
Date: 23 May 08 - 04:02 PM

Great news, Heather.