Ah, Greg,

That's pretty inique; me here in Illinois thinking of Pat--and listening to some of his tunes on an old cassette. On a whim starting the thread--and you--who I've not seen since those '60s answer here from Australia !! Nice being in touch.

Those details come back to me now. I'd forgotten Pat was ripped when the truck encounter got his leg. Knowing Pat, he'd love that folks remember and are still talking about and influenced by what he did.

I remember a night in an attic on Barry Street St. near Clark in Chicago with a bottle of moonshine. Pat was only in town for a short time and we just set this up to get some frailers together for a session. It was a fun night anyhow, but Pat was too wiped out to be really aware that it could be a night to truly connect with people who loved the music as much as he did. But Doug Montegue did get some nice tapes. (This was Doug's house.) I seem to remember that Warren Lemming was present with his banjo that night too.--------- Several years later Doug Montegue was shot when a wierded out co-worker at the Marvin Glass Toy manufacturer in Chicago brought an arsenal to work and shot up the place. Doug survived.---Others didn't. But he never was able to play banjo right after that.

I remember Pat and Art Rosenbaum having field collected recordings they'd made in Indiana put out as an album by Folkways Records. It was named something like Fine Times At Our House. As you said, Pat was still in his teens when he did that collecting. 'Twas a great album. "Summer Of 1845" sung unaccompanied by Vern Smelzer was on that one. ----Were you up in that attic that night??

Art