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Thread #50032   Message #757437
Posted By: Janice in NJ
31-Jul-02 - 06:44 AM
Thread Name: Plain Folk(s)?
Subject: Plain Folk(s)?
Does anyone recall a duo from the 1980s called Plain Folk? Or maybe it was Plain Folks? I believe their names were Ivan and Mercy and they were Pennsylvania Dutch. They were not Amish, but they were Pennsylvania Dutch in the more general sense of being descended from old German settlers. He played the autoharp and she played the guitar, and they were both kind of cute and sexy, but in that very rural and wholesome way. (Go ahead, make fun of me!) I believe they toured only in Pennsylvania, and the states such as New Jersey that bordered on Pennsylvania, and that they recorded one or more LPs.

Is there anyone else out there on Mudcat who remembers them, or are Plain Folk(s) a product of what my brother Warren likes to call my "constructive memory"? I cannot find anything about them on Google.