I'm glad Frank Hamilton mention, "The Cobbler". I saw Tommy Makhem do that song several times over the years, once close up in a bar, more often from the audience in a large hall. He had such power, a power I felt was rooted in an authenticity that I didn't even begin to appreciate (for instsance, until recently, I didn't know about his mother and his family tradition of music) but his showmanship channeled his authenticity and that song was a tour de force. I don't think I've ever thought of him since that first time I heard him in the White Horse Tavern without thinking, too, of Dick Darby, the cobbler.

SD