Doug,

I will e-mail you later today. Was it Jim Craig that set up your Merlin at Hogeye Music in Evanston?? John Carbo was at the Folklore Center at 343 W. North Avenue in Chicago in the mid and later 1960s. He passed away several years back. Anyhow, I too was at Big Johns---a great blues almost 2 or 3 nights a week after I'd close the Dlklre. Cntr. at 11:00 PM each night. Mike Bloomfield had his own band before going with Butterfield's band. I remember Jim Schwall and Corky Siegel auditioning there one night. They got the job. And Muddy Waters was on Monday nights, Howlin' Wolf on Tuesdays. Little Walter was on Wednesdays for a while until he was too alcoholic to keep on responsibly. Unique times.

Art