Good thoughts here from some of my favorite people. I'm with Mr. Bob Coltman just about all the way. Jerry knows I'll pick the hobo/cowboy/railroader singer who puts the SONG FIRST right at the top of the list of what I enjoy listening to most. (Harry Haywire Mac McClintock personifies this singer all by himself.) And if you look at what I personally put out on recordings over the years, it's all just ol' Art and his banjo or guitar on every single track but one; that one was where Cindy Mangsen sang harmony on the chorus of an Illinois version of "Down By The Brazos" --- the Texas song about that state's rivers. Soooo, the Illinois Humanities Council just put one of my songs on their new CDs of Illinois Folk Songs. What did they pick? Of course, the song with Cindy!

I pretty much fully understand their choice...

Art Thieme