I don't know if I'm a member of Muscat or not. I got to know Joe several years back on Jim Malcolm's Scotland tour. While searching for any info on my old friend Marc Chover, this post came up. I see it was years ago but if Michael Harrison is still around, the Detroit coffee house he referred to was not The Raven, which was in Birmingham, but The Retort, which was in the basement of a hotel on Woodward Ave in downtown Detroit. A lot a big name folks played there including Gordon Lightfoot, Buffy St. Marie, Jose Feliciano, and many more before they got to be well known.    It was a great place and I hung out there every possible moment until I went off to U of M. Here's the post I'm referring to:

ect: RE: Gordon Lightfoot's 70 today.
From: Michael Harrison
Date: 17 Nov 08 - 11:51 PM

Happy Birthday Gordon - a fellow Scorpion, I believe.

Guest, Cormac - you have great taste - Chapin and Lightfoot have been two of my very favorites since I first heard them. I was most fortunate to be able to interview both of them while in college at
Eastern Michigan, and, Lightfoot, again, a couple of years after moving down to Texas. Both were/are class people.

Anectdote: I grew-up in the Detroit area and in the early seventies I frequently worked with a bass player by the name of Marc Chover. Marc was, I believe, a "gunslinger" on guitar and bass and during the 1960's he was frequently called in to facilitate the needs of a Detroit coffeehouse (the name escapes me - not The Raven, though) and one night he was called in to play behind some guy from Canada that he didn't know. As Marc told it, the guy was impressed with Marc's playing and asked him to join him. Marc, of course, turned him down because his band, "The Southbound Freeway," had just signed a record deal and was headed to L.A. to become rock stars. I guess you figured that the "guy from Canada" was Gordon Lightfoot; and The Southbound Freeway?...well, what more can be said? Cheers.