CupOfTea,
It's very nice of you to say that. Thanks.

Mark,
Seeing Utah Phillips use humor to literally endear himself to an audience who never ever would've otherwise sat still for 20 seconds
(let alone 2 hours in a bar folk club) to hear a guy read the Wobbly Preamble to 'em and/or get 'em to sing along on "Dump The Bosses Off Your Back"---well, it opened my eyes for real. After that, the finding of tales and one-liners to set up my songs was a main priority. I thought long and hard about what went before the songs. The tale of the dog that got cut in half and put together wrong--but was better than ever afterward. That one was a perfect lead in for my singing Utah's "Queen Of The Rails"---or "Old Blue"---or any songs with dogs in them.----Or the dog that bled to death when his tail was cut o0ff so they took the ghost of the dog to the liq