Thanks for everybody bringing back the old thread on Al Grierson, whose death saddened me greatly at a time I was no longer on line (the ex ended up with the computer), and who I was still in correspondance with by letters and telephone until he died.I was informed of his death by a call from a mutual friend, who later sent some posts from the FOLK-DJ List with some sketchy information, but all this fills in a lot of information and aquaints me with a lot of material I'd never heard. In fact, he told me when "Durruti" came out that that was "old stuff", and he probably had another album's worth of songs written since then.

He did not like to or have room to keep many belongings around, but he liked to read with an eye on music, poetry and history, and I was able to find him some of the types of things he wanted for cheap in the used bookstores and library sales of the Washington DC area that he couldn't find living in either Austin or Ashland Oregon. In exchange for me sending him some of Woody Guthrie's writings, he sent me an advance cassette tape of his second CD with a couple of midnight "kitchen versions" of newer songs recorded on the spot to fill out the empty space. One of them was "Old Coyote", which was printed earlier in the thread, and the other was "the latest revision of 'Dover To Dundee'", which might have still been a work in progress, but, if anyone is interested, I can transcribe the words and even run off a copy of the two songs. I would be interested in any recordings that were not on the two CDs, or even in finding an actual CD copy of "Durruti".

For The Roses,
(Al's traditional e-mail sign off)
Severn