Bob Gibson in 1959 at the Gate Of Horn in Chicago--when he was singing trad songs and mostly playing banjo. (One guy or gal with their instrument---no backup. That is still the epitome for me.)

Paul Clayton---1958 at the Gate Of Horn.

The New Lost City Ramblers--1959 at the Gate Of Horn opening for Bob Gibson.

Joan Baez at the Gate Of Horn opening for Gibson.

Meeting and tape recording 93 year old Paul Durst--1961-- in Chicago. A Wobbly, hobo, river raftsman, crop worker, radical singer, fiddler, lumberjack. He had been at the Ludlow Massacre, the Haymarket riot, and as a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show had gone to Europe where they brought Hoof And Mouth Disease to that continent for the first time. Paul knew, and shipped out with, Joe Hill -- on a steamship to Hawaii. He was born in 1868...

Pete Seeger singing Bells Of Rhymney at Newport.

Lou Killen singing The Flying Cloud in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.

Jim Ringer singing California Joe in Rockford, Illinois.

Meeting Del Bray 1962--in a Cheyenne Wyoming bar and getting the song Cowboy's Barbara Allen from him...

...and many more.