I had the privilege of hanging ou(and playing) with Red River Dave in'76 at the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife. A larger that life character, wearing gold lame boots and western string tie the same color, with his white goatee and stetson hew looke like the reincarnation of Buffalo Bill. It's hard to say who cuyt a more colorful figure that summer, Dave or Utah Phillips! He insisted on teaching me the 2nd verse to AMELIA EARHART, he was upset that the Greenbriar Boys had left it out. He was a definite original.

Mark Ross