Over the years I have kept a month to month---year to year record of everything I spent and took in on/from music. I could deduct (for tax purposes) much of what was spent on the road. Therefore, I did a good job notating things. The income is noted as well as expenditures---where I went--mileage--where I hung out--festival tickets purchased---books and records bought---all of it. Everything that was legal I kept a record of. Anybody wanting to know where I was and what I did and what I earned and/or spent can look at these journals and recreate my entire life on the road striving to earn a living singing folksongs.

Also, for all those years I had a "BITS AND PIECES" file where I saved ALL the jokes and observations and tales and strange happenings on the road, at gigs, killing time 'til the next concert and what-have you. Loves and hates might've been chronicled along with always changing conclusions about all manner of people-politics and philosophical stands I may have embraced and maybe discarded. ----- I no longer have this file. A while ago, for various reasons, for better or for worse, I burnt the whole hodge podge. When I did that I had over 500 single spaced pages with no margins. Only a single blank line separated the many entries. The beginning of every entry was only a single *.

Art Thieme