For me the best ever folk gig had to be the one that lasted for TEN full years. Five months a year---every other day---from Memorial Day to Halloween playing on the Steamboat Julia Belle Swain and also on the Twilight on the Mississippi River.------- That dovetailed perfectly with my second "best" gig that lasted TWENTY-TWO YEARS. I played that length of time in the many schools within the eight counties surrounding Chicago and Cook County, Illinois---USA--(K through grade 12)

THIRD BEST GIG: While doing those above jobs, I played 37 years at the No Exit Cafe And Gallery, the coffeehouse in Chicago. Never for the money. There wasn't much of that rare stuff there.

Also, got our son, Chris, through college with nobody owing anything!!
If I sound proud o' that, it's 'cause I guess I am!! ;-) ;-) ;-)

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