OK HMR fans. I have three Albums. HMR 1 and HMR 2 and Goin' Nowhere Fast. The first two are Electra Folk series and the third is Rounder Records. I met Steve Weber once, briefly, in the Village where he and Peter Stampfel were playing in two different clubs per night (requireing much running back and forth). One was the Black Crow or something like that. I knew Peter for many years in Milwaukee. He is originally from Waukeshaw (sp?). I learned to play the banjo by watching and listening to him when he played at The Unicorn on North Avenue. He had a group which included Rob Hunter and another person I can't recall. Peter Stampfel, Bill Ross, Billy Olsen, and Ken Haferman were (and probably still are) the best banjo (clawhammer) players I have ever had the pleasure to hear. One day Peter came by my apartment (when I lived in Chicago, Art...I use an old sock myself) and in a cryptic manner he handed me some items to keep for him..."I'll get them later" with a hint of there might NOT be a later. If you read these posts, Peter I still have "Exodus, a Record of Human Erosion" which is a collection of photographs of Paul Shuster Taylor and Dorothea Lange. Incredible pictures of the depression in rural America. These photos have inspired my daughter Molly to become a documentary photo journalist. Thank you!

Tom Meisenheimer

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