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Thread #71495   Message #1224805
Posted By: GUEST,Art Thieme
13-Jul-04 - 03:55 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Art's GREAT TURTLE DRIVE tall tale
Subject: RE: Folklore: Art's GREAT TURTLE DRIVE tall tale
Allison,

You're correct. I did it twice on recordings. It was on my first LP for Kicking Mule Records---OUTRIGHT BOLDFACED LIES--Live At The Old Town School Of Folk Music (1975). All of Kicking Mule was sold to Fantasy Records and F. shows no sign of ever issuing it. I also put it on the LIVE AT WINFIELD (KANSAS) cassette (now out o' print). The Winfield recording was told better than the early one. The story has a way of morphing as time passed. An example would be my inserting references to Enron and Arthur Andersen in the version I just put up with Keith Taylor's drawing of the Turtle Drive. He drew that while I told it one night at Holstein's bar in the 80s. When I got off stage he handed it to me. And I just saw Keith Taylor at the Memorial for Freddy Holstein in Chicago last April.

Art Thieme