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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Abby Sale
Date: 02 Jun 02 - 03:27 PM

Well, I'm pretty damn sure I'm the only Abby Sale in Netdom & likely in the world. Every time I've ever seen a suspicious post from an "Abby Sale" it turned out to be me saying something so dumb I tried to forget it. But this turn of events makes the whole Joe-clone thing too dificult to imagine. And could it be that the "real" Hedy who was so messed with by her neighbor, the Fraud Hedy, was herself a forged identity. Named Joe West?

This thread is closed because it has too many messages.
Please go to the Next thread (click)
Please don't post any more messages here.
Thanks.
-Joe Offer-


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: GUEST,Joe Offer
Date: 27 May 02 - 10:58 PM

Hey Joe, I do not appreciate you commenting that I am a person non-grata without contacting me. My name is Joseph Offer and you can email me at JOEEOFFER@AOL.COM. Call me up if you like 1-415-499-6323. Joe
28 May - well, I checked with him by e-mail, and it seems to check out. I wonder if we're related. I met an Offer I wasn't related to only once. If my questioning his identity was offensive, I'm sorry.
-Joe Offer-


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Mary Katherine
Date: 18 May 02 - 07:52 PM

John, I think that the reason you didn't understand Hedy's allusion to "Forbes" in relation to Ed Pearl was that she simply misremembered the name. She meant to say Hughes, not Forbes (all those billionaire's names sound alike?). Ed Pearl's wife at the time of Hedy's shows at the Ash Grove (where, by the way, I was working at the same time) was named Kate Hughes, not Forbes. Kate Hughes Pearl later married Ralph Rinzler, and they were still married at the time Ralph passed away.

Mary Katherine


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: GUEST,Joe Offer
Date: 18 May 02 - 05:17 PM

Sid it appears to me that Hedy has given up on the cds. I have been following this for a few years now and Hedy has not responded online. Additionally I bought those CDs on Amazon and they have not been sent for 2 years!... I don't think its for real. Joe
There are very few people in this world who bear the name of Joe Offer. I highly doubt that this message was posted by one of them. I am quite certain that "Sid" is the same person as the Joe Offer impostor.
-Joe Offer-


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: GUEST,Sid Lyons
Date: 16 May 02 - 11:39 PM

It appears that Ms. West discovered the internet an then dropped off the face of the earth (in terms of internet contact). Has anyone heard anything recently about her cds? These posts say she was working on them in 2000 so I would assume that a few of the cds should be available. I had no luck searching the web for her website, does anyone know what it is? Thanks, Sid


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: GUEST,sundayrooster
Date: 16 Apr 02 - 10:08 PM

My brother & I first saw Hedy at the old Ashgrove along with, Doc Watson, Clarence Ashley & Roscoe Holcolm. UNFORGETABLE! Does anyone know about the availability of any of her cd's?


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: GUEST,Liquor Lovin' Larry
Date: 10 Apr 02 - 09:50 PM

I have nothing to add to this thread (which makes it a typical Mudcat message). I just wanted to have message #100.


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Abby Sale
Date: 10 Apr 02 - 11:10 AM

refresh


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Abby Sale
Date: 09 Apr 02 - 09:17 AM

uubonfig@hotmail.com at rec.music.folk wrote:

>Looks like the authorized Hedy West albums, the first two albums >anyway, have already been reissued on the UK label Phantom on one CD. >Seems you can get them in the USA through Amazon.com,

There does seem to be a mysterious offer at Amazon.com: "Hedy West 1st & 2nd"

But little info. Can any verify this?


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: GUEST,Vicki
Date: 14 Mar 02 - 11:06 AM

Ms. West,

I am the daughter of one of your classmates, Shirley Bandy, with whom you attended school in Murphy NC around 1954 or 1955. She has talked of you and your music often and I was so excited to find you here. I too wrote to the HedyWest@hotmail address only to find it inactive. I know my mother would love to hear from you if you have the time to email her. Thank you so much. I plan to purchase some of your CD's for her birthday in June. She will be so surprised! The email address is ourhyacinth9@aol.com.

Thanks again, Vicki Chesterfield


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 12:21 AM

Here you go. As far as I know this is still current:

Subject: RE: New Hedy West CDs,br> From: dick greenhaus
Date: 27-Jan-00 - 01:07 PM
Shop: Saro , Pretty Saro

"Best of Hedy West" and "Pretty Saro" are now available from Camsco. If you wish to order direct, you can call Camsco at 800/ 548-FOLK (3655). Mention Mudcat and Mudcat will get a cut of the proceeds.

If you haven't heard Hedy, you should. She's a fine singer and a wonderful banjo picker.


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: GUEST,Joseph Hornikin
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 12:03 AM

Wow I just discovered this... Hedy is one of my favorites. Does anyone have info on where I can buy her rereleased cds?


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Art Thieme
Date: 10 Jan 02 - 08:04 PM

I had a response from Hedy to a silly e-mail I'd sent her so I sent a reply asking about the new recording work she's been working on. No answer thus far.

Art Thieme


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 09 Jan 02 - 10:51 PM

Refresh...ing! This is what the 'Cat is all about. Thanks for rediscovering this thread, 'Spaw. Man, that woman can WRITE! I'm sorry I missed most of the Philly folk scene while I was growing up there...

Aloha,
Mark


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Abby Sale
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 05:59 PM

GUEST,Rastis Jones: Hedy wrote that this is expected to be the official site when the CDs are ready but she went on that, "At present www.TraceChain.com is simply a registered website"

We wait with serene patience and glad expectation.


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: GUEST,ApparentDefense
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 05:46 PM

I first heard Hedy West on the Vanguard release-New Folks back in the early 1960's. The Greenbriar Boys were also on that record. I'll always remember Ms. West singing... 'I had a noton, not working this mornin'...wind so cold, Wwind so cold...'

Met and heard Sheila Kay Adams at a writer's conference in Greeneville, Tennessee last September. Sheila Kay's a wonderful storyteller and singer of the old pure southern appalachian ballads. Frails pretty, too.

Glad to hear Hedy West is well.


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: GUEST,Rastis Jones
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 03:57 PM

I got an email from her a long time ago saying that her website was www.tracechain.com. There is nothing there... does anyone know about the cds?


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Art Thieme
Date: 20 Mar 01 - 12:45 PM

I suspect Ms West has not looked in here lately. Must be on the road.

Art


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 20 Mar 01 - 12:40 AM

Yes, I have been looking for any of Hedy's songs on CDs. I just "discovered" her singing after hearing Cotton Mill Girls on the Radio sung by the Poozies. I decided to try to find out more about the song. Hedy's great and it's too bad that her music along with many others is not available on CD.

JAB


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: chip a
Date: 09 Mar 01 - 03:26 PM

Hedy, I met you in your grandma's store about 25 years ago. You had a long neck banjo there & you picked something on it for me. I was just learning two finger style. I stopped in to visit with your grandmother a lot of times. I got Love, Hell & Busciuts from Cecil Lance at Hill Lance Drugs in town, but gave it to Cory Stephens. He's your cousin Sharon West Stephens' son. Anyway, It's good to know you're out there. Chip in Blairsville


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 09 Mar 01 - 08:06 AM

I'm so glad I spotted this thread. Hedy, I've been a fan of yours since first hearing. I still play your Topic, ex-Folk Legacy albums, and the duet one with Bill Clifton. I have many grand memories of hearing you in England, in particular a spectacular event at the Singer's Club, London, when you and Peggy Seeger shared the whole evening. What a feast. Thank you for all that. Please do not abandon singing altogether, we need people like you. I agree with Bert Lloyd's comments in the Topic sleeve notes. Sincerely, Burl.


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Art Thieme
Date: 08 Mar 01 - 01:59 PM

refresh


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: GUEST,PStamler
Date: 07 Mar 01 - 02:06 PM

Hi Hedy:

Martin Carthy was through here last week, and mentioned that you taught him the tune which he uses for "Famous Flower of Serving Men", but he doesn't remember the tune's original name. Do you? It's the same one, roughly, that Fairport Convention used as the beginning of the instrumental medley following "Matty Groves", which they call "The High Road to Linton".

Peace, Paul


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: GUEST,Rastis Jones
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 09:04 AM

Is there any news about the CDs?


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Hedy West (current membership)
Date: 19 Sep 00 - 02:42 PM

Pete,

That obstruction's more formidable than the ones I bump into, like "error 11...restart".

Hedy


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson
Date: 19 Sep 00 - 12:23 PM

Frustration quotient: the reason i have been posting from work is not just my incorrigible tendency to find things other than work to while away these hours, but my home computer has a bug where when you click on MS Internet Explorer, it flashes the error message "This program has committed an illegal operation and will be shut down" and then it does. I am about to call one of these ads in the local peper "Computer problems? Onsite evaluation, only $20". . . I visualize the person who will show up as loking much like I did at age 16 or so. . . I am feeling like an old dog, and this . . . anyway I am hoping to ask the computer wizard to set up Hear Me and start to enjoy a little more. Home email is lutrine@tidalwave.com and I CAN get email, it's just any attempt either to launch Explorer, or click on a blue clicky thing, gives me the error message above. But Watch This Space.


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 10:20 PM

catspaw..it was a local show...we have big time DJs who know everyone here and many hours of bluegrass, C&W and Old Timey stuff on the radio. I suppose it was recorded, but I have no idea what they might do with it.

I will be sure to get the word out if I hear anything


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Hedy West (current membership)
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 08:21 PM

Centi,

I guess that's yet another disadvantage of using a Mac. Maybe it's time to change to PC. HearMe sounds fine.

Hedy


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 07:41 PM

Having access to two of the worst NPR stations in the country................BILL, was that a local show or is it a syndicated thing that I might (doubtful) find popping up here?

Hedy....DO you know about HearMe? If you have a PC and not Mac, as Jon said, you can join in a live song circle. Its not hard to load or anything and its fun listening to someone in Australia, then England, then here, then wherever. If you have a mic, you can sing some too, which I know would be a treat for all of us.....You might get a big kick out of it. 'Course you can get a big kick out of a mule too, but HearMe is a lot less painful.

Spaw


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 07:19 PM

Heard a 3 hour 'tribute to the Carter Family' show on our local NPR station the other day...with Bill Clifton as guest. They were celebrating the big release of the multi-CD set of everything the Carters ever did....they'd play one from the set, then a couple of versions from other places.....An amazing show!...and I wasn't set up for taping!


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 05:54 PM

Well Hedy and Pete, if you have PCs, there is nothing stopping you coming along to Hearme and singing them.

Jon


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Hedy West (current membership)
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 05:47 PM

Sing it, Pete! Wish I could hear that "Wine's Delight"! Max & Joe might set about figuring how to capture our singing and post it here?

I can imagine Bill luxuriating in the velvet of the tropics. He plays velvet, sings velvet, talks velvet, too. The Carters are part of the core of his life. He lives cheek-on-jowl with them. Or, with Jeanette.

Hedy


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson at work
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 10:11 AM

Over the weekend I listened to my almost 40 year old copy of New Folks. I enjoyed it! Hedy, I think you are being too rough on yourself! And yes, Pretty Polly sounds very much like it's in the gDGCD tuning; your post probably showed up while i was busy writing mine!
Most people that say "modal", I have found, are using that as a synonym for "Dorian mode", forgetting that there are six other modes. . .
Fretless, I gotta try Wine's Delight in that low tuning. As I think through the way I play it (my banjo is twenty miles away0 I don't think I ever use the 4th string, so a low drone would be nice! THANKS in advance.
I remember running into Bill Clifton about 15 years ago at some tropical resort; I had on my Carter Fold T-shirt; I didn't recognize him, but I was wearing a billboard which allowed him to identify himself. I still have his "150 Songs" -- copy pretty battered and well-used by now. I love his singing; you can hear the Carter Family influences


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Hedy West (current membership)
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 01:52 AM

Rockaday,

Bill Clifton lives in Mendota, Va. His Email "elfltd@3Wave.com"/ I enjoyed those tours and recordings with Bill and his family. It's fun to sing with Bill.

Hedy


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: John Hindsill
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 12:36 AM

Hedy,I understand your allusion to Pearl (Ed the owner) at the Ash Grove, although the Forbes part is not in my experience. As an aside, I lived next door to the Pearls in the mid-50s, his brother Bernie and I went to Jr.High together and later met again at university. It wasn't until my third or fourth visit to the AG that I learned who owned it.

A few years ago Ed Pearl tried to revive the Ash Grove on the pier at Santa Monica, but it was a short-lived venture.---John


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: GUEST,Fretless
Date: 15 Sep 00 - 12:28 PM

Thanks, Hedy, for the tuning info...and for all that great music!

I'll have to try The Brown Girl in the more typical, old-timey gCGCD tuning, although I admit it's going to be hard to shake my ear off the now-accustomed dime of the triplicate aDAAD. Another tune that sounds really fine in the aDAAD triplicate is Bascomb Lamar Lunsford's Swannoah Tunnel.

And for another interesting triplicate tuning, try gGGBD, with the fourth string dropped an octive to serve as a low drone. Makes for an appealing version of Melvin Wine's "Wine's Delight."


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Frankham
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 02:38 PM

This is very informative and a good thread.

Hedy, Maggie Holtzberg used to live here in GA and moved to Boston. She was fiddlin' a storm. They had a group here doing Celtic (Irish mainly) called the New Road which was great. They disbanded. Two of the members went to Ireland to learn more.

Frank


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson at work
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 02:32 PM

thanks for the Barlow knife information! I like tools that have only ONE function; the Swiss Army Knife has never turned me on.(But I digress) the Barlow looks beautiful. I wonder if what my father had (and I found in his dresser drawer) was a Barlow?
Banjo tunings: An awful lot of modal tunes are played in what Pete Seeger called "mountain minor" in his book, and Clarence Ashley called "sawmill" tuning: gDGCD. Almost everybody who plays Coo Coo Bird plays it out of this tuning. I HAVE played Pretty Polly from that tuning but without words from the Master (Mistress?) am unwilling to state this is how it WAS done, only that it can be. And usually sounds pretty good too!
I haven't tried tose 'triplicate' tunings (nice name!!) in years; learned them so I could sound like Peggy Seeger's playing of Willie Moore; she calls them "dulcimer ' tuning.


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Hedy West (current membership)
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 02:29 PM

Rasta,

With Pat Moynihan let's minimize the classified:

I haven't relistened, but the tuning was bound to have been GCGCD (2nd string raised 1/2 step from the standard G tuning). GCGCD is one of those tunings that get called (strangely, to my mind) "modal". Strange, both because tunings are pitch-clusters, not scale arrangements, and because all the scale arrangements we accompany with tunings fall into some modal-pattern (or our reconstructed guess as to which patterns were called which mode-name). The conventional major scale we call ionian and the minor scale we generally call aeolian. Why do we then leave them out of category "modal". Are we really shortening "modal" to mean those less-often used modes?

I believe I frailed rather than strummed "Pretty Polly". I certainly do now.

Guest, will you forgive me if I ask whether that could be synonymous with "Ignorance is bliss."

Hedy


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 01:13 PM

Hedy,

You may have dirt under your nails and between your toes (careful with that blade) but your way with words has more in common with the sublime than with the ordinary. Especially when the reader is ignorant of that which spawned them.

A good day to you.


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Rasta
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 12:19 PM

Ill never marry a stock and Ive divorced three banjos already. but weve remained friends. ill never go out with a constiutionalized thong but could you tell me what the tuning for pretty polly was or is. I listened to my updated CD of New folks last nite . sounds like a basic strum style. I know this is secret and classified info but if you could reveal it great and if not thats OK too once again THANX and GROVINESS ---===Rasta (Pat)


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Hedy West (current membership)
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 06:18 AM

Centi,

for the Constitution, best turn to Nat Hentoff.

Hedy


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Hedy West (current membership)
Date: 14 Sep 00 - 03:16 AM

Centiscreed (still honoring your paws & postings),

Are you bringing out the worst in me?:

"...Thong underwear..." "What's that?" said she. "A Monica flip, of course." said he,

A Monica flip, a Monica flap, The tiniest thing, the skinniest strap,

"Pop!" went the thing on her fat young thigh, - It takes far less to catch that guy's eye -

"Snap!" it sounded on her juicy haunch - And Bubba was off to his usual raunch.

Lov-el-y, lov-el-y, furry and fair, Our pre-zee-dent preyed and swizzled down there.

And where was the wifey? Where was she? The wifey cried, "Foul! Con-speary-assy!"

Certainly NOT Hedy

Monica winked; Our Commander blinked


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Sep 00 - 10:42 PM

Hedy, for the past two days I've been trying to rundown an old college friend who played your Vanguard albums constantly. Haven't found him yet, but you were Jeff's favorite back in the Berea days. We were an odd group there. Converts through the Baez/Dylan/PPM channels, but immediately found ourselves hooked into Jean Ritchie (had a niece in school there at the time), Doc Watson, Peter LaFarge, Patrick Sky, you..............lots of others who had a real impact on us 35 years ago. I'm glad you've come here and I hope you find your way onto some other threads where your knowledge and experience will be appreciated. And I hope you find a few BS threads to your liking too.......I can't help but wonder what your take is on the constitution and thong underwear!(:<))

Spaw


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Hedy West (current membership)
Date: 13 Sep 00 - 10:27 PM

Rasta,

Never get married to a stock or to a banjo. Keep yr eye peeled on the horizon.

Guest Fretless,

"$1 concerts" has a marvellous sound, no? D, as tonic, was close. I believe I always used C#/Db as tonic, i.e. on the long neck capoed at the 4th fret. Tuned: G#C#G#C#D#; more straighforwardy, GCGCD all raised 1/2 step. But, it's good that you devise your own tuning. Those tunings with triplicate-pitch can be wonderful: viz., your ADAAD. I like to use GCGCC and to play melody on 2 strings, either at unison or parallel octaves. Not always "pretty", but relentless, and can express horror of the insensate.

"Surreal," Guest? "otherworldly?" I have dirt under my nails and between my toes. Better get busy with the Barlow knife. From under the nails, anyhow. Ouch, re the toes.

That's interesting, Naemanson: "... That is why only the upper class kill with a pen knife in the old songs..."

Hedy


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Naemanson
Date: 13 Sep 00 - 07:47 PM

My father always said you hadn't finished putting on your pants in the morning if your pocket knife wasn't in your pocket. I grew up with a barlow knife in my pocket though today it has gone away I still carry a jackknife all the time.

By the way, thread creep continues, does everyone know that the pen knives featured in so many songs was the knife kept on hand by the literate to sharpen their quil pens. That is why only the upper class kill with a pen knife in the old songs. The lower class had to rely on other deadly instruments.


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Hedy West (current membership)
Date: 13 Sep 00 - 06:05 PM

Pete,

Everyone carried a pocketknife when I was a child. It was always coming in handy, to cut into a crab-apple, for example, before you dipped it into a palmfull of salt and downed it, or just whittling on a stick, or infinite other applications. The most common and reasonably priced brand was made by the Barlow company. You could get them almost everywhere, too. My grandmother stocked them in her store, as did the other merchants I was aware of. My dad always had one in his pocket.

Hedy


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Alice
Date: 12 Sep 00 - 10:07 AM

Hedy, thank you for your music, and than you for joining this forum.

Alice


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: Giac
Date: 12 Sep 00 - 10:00 AM

Love this thread!

I've long enjoyed your music, Hedy, thank you.

Guest, Pete Peterson - Here's some history, I hope, on:

Barlow Knives

Sorry to add to the thread creep.


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Subject: RE: Hedy West
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson
Date: 12 Sep 00 - 09:33 AM

Yes, memory has a way of taking off the rough edges and making things sound better than they did in reality, doesn't it? I still remember it as a very good record!
In the mid 80s there were any number of good people studying folklore at Penn among them Malachi O'Connor, Bonnie Blair O'Connor (they married each other, and i got to watch!) and Maggi Holzberg. All three said they worked very hard, but it was worth it. Sadly I've lost touch with all of them, but one never knows waht is around the next corner.
More Thread Creep: What was so special about Barlow knives? They've turned up in several songs from the South?!


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