Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee---mid-sixties. Myself and four other students in college had worked hard to start a folk music club...along with a professor who played twelve string Blues guitar. We were all pleasantly surprised at the quality of the various performers who agreed to come for concerts. The five of us were responsible for doing the "grunt" work...making sure the performers' had places to stay, food and (ummm) water. I remember nothing about Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee's concert that night, but we had arranged for them to stay at the professor's house. After the performance, at the professor's house, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee started playing, relaxed...and clearly not wanting to retire for the night. We ended up "jamming" until dawn (I think I only knew three chords at the time). In my ignorance at the time, I had no idea who they were...nor the legends they would become.....but vividly remember how exciting the music was for me, how patient they were in feeding the baseline to me to play along...and how absolutely thrilled our professor was.

#2 Newport Folk Festival 196?; sitting in the parking lot of the local laundramat, just playing around with our guitars--waiting for our clothes to dry. A woman walked up with her guitar slung behind her back and asked if we minded if she joined us......she played with us for a while and left. We realized later that night, during the stage show, that the woman was Joan Baez.