I know I should not be telling this, but it's been on my conscience for almost 30 years, and it's probably the devil making me do it.

I was on tour in The Maritimes and was staying with a VERY religious(fundamentalist Christian) family for a couple of days. They were friends of my bass player and I tried to be very polite and courteous. Certainly I wasn't going to tell them that back home I was one of those Godless, atheistic, protestin' kind of guys. Well, one day I was looking through their record collection and was enjoying immensely listening to their old-time gospel records (I know, I know...but it's a dichotomy common to many folkies) when I came upon "Up With People"! I was immediately impressed by the fact that John Wayne,Pat Boone, and Walt Disney had their pictures on the back and were recommending it so highly. The fact that the Schick razor company, who proudly declared their support for the John Birch Society, financed the album, clinched my decision to resort to crime. I stole (or perhaps liberated) the album, so that future generations of my friends could enjoy such songs as: "Freedom isn't Free", "What Colour is God's Skin", "Which Way, America", and my all time favourite: "You Can't Live Crooked, and Think Straight"! I officially apologise, but if you really want to know why an otherwise honest person would do such a thing...you must find that album and listen to it!