I have that old Arhoolie record which is no longer in catalogue. I recall buying it with a whole batch of Arhoolie records that a music store was selling cheaply in the early '80s. It has him on vocals and guitar on side 1 - 'De Kalb blues', 'Delia's fling', 'Buck Dancer's choice' and others - and on piano and vocals on side 2 - 'Sixth Avenue Stomp', 'Stack O'Lee' and others. It can't have made much of an impression on me at the time. I think I played it once and filed it away. On the strength of the enthusiasm expressed in this thread, I'll have to give him another listen.

The sleeve note indicates that Russo and Ron Brentano did the music for an award-winning Bonneville Power Administration film, titled 'Intertie', and that Russo accompanied Fred McDowell on an Arhoolie LP called 'Fred McDowell and His Blues Boys'.

With that batch of Arhoolies, I also picked up some blues stuff on an Italian label called Appaloosa. There was an LP called 'Hog Wild' by a harmonica player/vocalist/songwriter by the name of Andy J. Forest. He certainly made an impression on me, particularly on his own composition 'You'll Never Leave'. I never found out anything about him nor anything else by him. Has anyone heard of him?

--Stewie.