He was apparently very shy about performing. Dick Spottswood attempted to bring him out of hiding once and booked him into the late, lamented Red Fox Inn in Bethesda, MD. A bunch of us came out, but he didn't show for whatever reason. I'd heard The Country Gentlemen and Mike Seeger covering his tunes, but had not heard his own recordings yet and was among thoes waiting in vain.

A few years later, Mr. Spottswood got him (and his wife, who joined him on a few numbers) up to the National Folk Festival at Wolf Trap Park in Vienna, VA, where I finally got to hear him. I eventually got the Sugar Hill LP as soon as it appeared. Some of the performances from Wolf Trap were tacked on by Dick on the end of the Sugar Hill recording at the time of its CD reissue, along with some new liner notes by Dick as well.

Not easily pigeonholed with his blues, country and hillbilly influences, mainstream country it's not, but definately worth the listen and the effort to find.