But, alas, I won't be!

(Around forever, that is ;-)

Joe,

I've lost his E-mail address. Last thing I recall, he is in North Carolina, with a PhD now, and teaching. But if you'd like to check out a photo of him with Cathy Fink, wearing a monkey mask and putting a hollowed out, carved-like-a-pumpkin, watermelon on his head---just go to my folk photos web site.
http://rudegnu.com/art_thieme.html

Once again: To get in to view my snapshots, when prompted, enter the lower case word, mudcat, as both the "password" AND the "user name".

In the photos there are some of Craig jamming with the fine fiddler Joe Thompson. Also, a few of him singing with Cathy and Alice Girrard and John Beam and Mike Seeger back in the 1980s. We were in Takoma Park, Maryland and had a jug of moonshine---which explains (sort of) both the watermelon and why and how the watermelon got on Mr. Johnson's head. The monkey mask Cathy was wearing was a stage thing she sometimes wore when playing a style of frailed banjo she had invented called "Monkey Music". In it, specific out-of-the-chord notes appeared at unusual, but regular, intervals a bit like what Charlie Parker did on his sax. --- As you, maybe, can see from my choice of words here, recounting that good afternoon prods me to feel the effects of that good moonshine whiskey all over again (to paraphrase Yogi Berra ;-)

Art (I can't sleep tonight!! ;-)