Hi, Al: (Can I call you Al?) That makes two of us who Sing Old Shoes and Leggins. Back in the 60's, I remember talking to Peter LaFarge as I was heading down the stairs into the Gaslight Cafe. He said, in a voice as prophetic as the guy who told Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate that the future was one word, "plastics," the people who are going to make it are the songwriters. One strange week, around that time, I was opening for the Highwaymen. In my set, I was doing Old Shoes and Leggins, Henry Lee, Bandit Cole Younger ("Hand us out your money, Sir, and make no long delay, we are the noted Younger boys and spend no time in play, Charles Guiteau and all that great Anthology of American Folk Music stuff, complete with surface noise. The Highwaymen sold a million records. I got ten bucks a nightat the Gaslight, and a hamburger with fries when I did a set across the street at the Fat Black Pussycat. How could anyone not fall madly in love with all that music?

Jerry