Brief note on Hermes Nye, from
http://neglectedbooks.com/?p=193

From a review of "Fortune Is a Woman," a novel of Nye's.

"Hermes Nye was born in Chicago, but became a legendary East Texas character as a lawyer, folksinger, folklorist, novelist, humorist and local liberal activist. Nye clearly never took anything, including himself, too seriously. When, in the midst of the 1960s folk boom, he published a guide to folk songs, he gave it a triply-redundant title that included his own punchline: How to be a folksinger; How to sing and present folksongs; or, The folksinger's guide; or, Eggs I have laid."