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Thread #78214 Message #1430272
Posted By: GUEST,Art Thieme
09-Mar-05 - 12:49 AM
Thread Name: Folksingers who are research historians?
Subject: RE: Folksingers who are research historians?
It sounds like you have the tapes made by Steve Powers when he ran the club in that old synogogue named Charlotte's Web in Rockford. (Named for his sister, Charlotte, who had been killed in a tragic auto accident.) There are tapes there by Steve Goodman, Leon Redbone, myself, Tom Dundee, Richard (then Dick) Pinney, Brian Bowers, Ron Nigrini, maybe even Bill Monroe 'cause I opened the show for him and the Bluegrass Boys one poorly attended night. Bill and Karen Howard owned the place. First a coffeehouse in those early days when your tapes were made. Later they had to go for a liquor license---to try to make money. One strange week I was working five nights for $125.00 opening for Biff Rose. Going back to the farmhouse where we folksingers were housed one super cold winter night, out in the country near Rockton, Steve, Biff and I had THREE flat tires in about 45 minutes. And it was all great. The whole folk scene was great. Glad I was there then.
BUT if you are talking about a different folk club in an old synagogue---well, never mind then...