A little vintage Art Thieme

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 12:51 PM

I sent a note to a local radio DJ who always asks for suggestions to play on his eclectic program on Sunday nights. I didn't recommend a particular song because I wasn't sure which to tell him. Every time his banjo comes on I think "I could have recommended this one, the banjo is so great" and others I think that for the great guitar or musical saw or mouth harp. . . but for all of that great accompaniment, it's Art's voice that really pulls you in and holds your attention. So whatever he picks, it'll be good!

SRS

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 11:30 AM

Good to see all of this continuing. Your KM albums are some of my favourites of yours!

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 06:55 AM

Always great to hear you, Art! And thanks so much for the magazine.

Love,

Jerry

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Art Thieme
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 01:44 AM

I'm pretty amazed by all that keeps on happening on this thread. BK, as always, unbelievable work you've done. Again, thank you!!

The reason I included the songs I did on the favorites compilation, aside from those being many of my actual favorites from the 2 K.M. LPs, I did not want to include songs that were issued by Sandy or Andrew Calhoun--etc. Red Iron Ore, Walkie In The Parlor, Robin Hood's Death. When I saw those were not going to come out on a CD from Kicking Mule, I re-did 'em for Folk Legacy and Waterbug. Eventually, Kicking Mule was sold to Fantasy lock, stock and barrel. And now somebody else has 'em. On we go.

Thanks to everyone. Your comments are certainly appreciated.

Love to all,

Art

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: BK Lick
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 01:21 AM

Yes, Peace, it was posted here a week ago, giving a blue clicky to the discography.

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Peace
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 04:36 PM

Illustrated Art Thieme discography


Google the above. I do not know if that's been posted to Mudcat before. If so, well, it's been posted again.

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 04:32 PM

I listened to a couple on line, then gave up clicking on each one and put the CD in. :)

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 04:13 PM

I guess WMP will play both formats and sort them out. I haven't used it in years. I suppose many folks will have WMP as their default.

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 03:45 PM

Came up real easily and played in my Windows Media Player.

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 01:25 PM

Thanks, BK, those are great, as were the earlier ones.... but it did take me a bit to get them to play. The links say 'MP3', and my browser was told to play MP3 with one specific program. It said it couldn't do it. When downloaded, the files say "mpeg", and then I have choices of other programs which play the files just fine. Mpeg is 'usually' an indication of a video file.
Sometimes one's default program will recognize a file internally and not be confused by the extension...and sometimes it will just look at it and say "I don't do those".

If anyone else has a problem playing them, this may be the problem.

(and thank YOU, Art, for letting us hear all those classics....)

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: olddude
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 10:31 AM

It is posts like this featuring the work of a master that will influence younger folks to keep our music alive. Thank you so much it is priceless

Subject: A little more vintage Art Thieme
From: BK Lick
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 05:42 AM

Art sent me a compilation of what he regards as the best of his two Kicking Mule LPs
Outright Boldface Lies (KM-150) and Songs Of The Heartland (KM-148)
and with his OK I've put them on my webspace.

Cottage Cheese Story
Sally Ann
Titanic
The Great Turtle Drive (tall tale)
Billy Vanero
The State Of Illinois
Here's To You Rounders (by Don Lange)
Blue Mountain
Old Blue/Split Dog (tall tale)
Nine Pound Hammer/Railroad Blues
Shanty Boy On The Big Eau Claire
What Does The Deep Sea Say
For Bowls
The Rock River Valley (by Art Thieme)
Red River Valley (musical saw)
The Hanging Of Charlie Birger
Down By The Embarrass (by Win Stracke)
Will Rogers' Cow And Its Fate (tall tale)
Cape Girardeau--Hang Me Oh Hang Me
The Kansas Cyclone
Night Rider's Lament (by Michael Burton)

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Abby Sale
Date: 28 May 08 - 03:59 PM

Art & BK, thank you sincerely for the jokes. To me, aside from being fine laughating, they're potential gags. Sometimes I have to wait 30 or more years to use a gag - that is, naturally without any artificiality or setup. And this I did in just a few days!

In a lawyer's office today - exciting practice: wills, estate planning, "living wills," like that. Old school, old southern, staid, deadpan lawyer.

Literally, not one word of improvement on the facts, I swear:

While he's out of the room I notice on the desk a tri-folded letter -

                            UNC School of Dentistry
                          Faculty of Dental Practice
  
                       APPOINTMENT CONFIRMATION NOTICE
  
     Lawyer's name
     Address

That's all I could see.

So when he returned, of course I said, "I happened to see a letter on your desk - of course I didn't open it but it seems you've been appointed to UNC Dental School." (He startled slightly that someone had observed something. I let him startle.)

"That's great...I understand Dental Law's a terrific specialty." (Take a few beats - just enough for him to slowly react & smile, not quite enough to get his mouth all the way open.)

"There are such big retainers."

And he laughed out loud.

I though his face would crack.

My day made in spite of the fee. (He didn't reduce it.)

Thanks again.

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: BK Lick
Date: 26 May 08 - 05:57 PM

John, SRS asked a very specific question which I answered -- simply and correctly, I think. Your response, addressed to me, seemed to suggest that I had somehow failed to answer the question properly. I'm not sure what you're on about.

Those 50 threads, by the way, contain many riches -- I recommend tracing and browsing them all at your leisure. The 20 Aug 99 thread, for example, contains Frank Hamilton's heart-warming welcome from several Catters he had lost touch with.

—BK

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 May 08 - 04:36 PM

Way back when, I started copying and pasting Thiemeism and asked folks to PM with any they might spot. I lost all that I had on an old PC. I now have a small file of recent ones. I had thought it would be a nice collection to publish online or in a booklet...all with Art's permission, of course. From an old thread:

had asked Art for permission to collect his stuff off the Mudcat and put them in booklet form a couple of years ago. I didn't go public with it, but did ask a few others to let me know whenever they spotted a "good 'un" so I could include it...


Of course, IMO, it would be even better if Art was up to dictating a book, directly, and like MMario I would love to help transcribe. I would just like to see the Treasures of Fine Art be preserved and shared and I know there is a LOT more in his noggin than has been posted here!

I'm still willing if anyone wants to send me links, etc. AND, if Art wants to dictate. Art, I've got the software that Chris could set up for you to dictate.:-)

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 26 May 08 - 04:33 PM

BK -

That IS THE WAY it works for you.

If fifty threads are all there are, then you get them all. The total number of threads that the filter will return is 1,000 - or fewer. (You're welcome to assume I was just kiddin' Art that there might be more than 1,000 threads about him - if you wish. Actually I wasn't too sure, since we talk about him quite a lot.)

Your search shows that there are fewer than a thousand threads that contain both art and thieme. I'd suggest filtering just for Art and then just for Thieme as well, and then for any other names someone might have called him - including misspelled Theime etc - if you think of one or two(?). Either of these should get the fifty that contain both names, plus (esp for Art) a lot of extraneous junk.

The hard part could be finding any threads where he or his works have been talked about, but where his name isn't in the thread title, since the stuff inside threads is only searchable via indexes that may not be up to date. There may not actually be any - but you don't really know until you look (and with an indexed search you don't really know after you look, unless you know that the term you searched on is an "index term").

Art has been pretty good about visiting and commenting in any threads that refer to him, so a cross-check of his posts could be revealing, if there are any other threads of interest. (There may not be any.) There have been a few fairly extended periods when he's been "off the cat" and might have missed a thread, but usually they've come back frequently enough, or some one tells him about them, so that he'd likely have caught most - if not all - of them.

John

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: BK Lick
Date: 26 May 08 - 02:41 PM

JohnInKansas --

That ain't the way it works for me -- I get these 50 thread titles, dating back to 1999:

A little vintage Art Thieme         49        26 May 08 - 06:05 AM
Art Thieme contact info?         16        15 May 08 - 11:01 PM
Art Thieme's CD: The Older I Get, The Better I Was         109* d        20 Mar 08 - 05:53 PM
Art Thieme Offline for a while         154* d        26 Feb 08 - 01:02 PM
Happy Birthday, Art Thieme!!!         47        12 Jul 07 - 08:11 PM
Review: Art Thieme Rides Again         5        04 Jun 07 - 07:46 PM
Art Thieme Recordings - Now on CD!         55* d        11 Apr 07 - 04:36 PM
Art Thieme's computer has died         37        08 Nov 06 - 12:49 PM
Art Thieme in Boston Globe (8/18/06)         41        16 Sep 06 - 06:15 PM
Art Thieme at Fox Valley Folk & Storytelling Fest         6        07 Sep 06 - 10:38 PM
BS: Happy birthday Art Thieme         55* d        14 Jul 06 - 12:31 PM
Art Thieme-new CD out on Folk Legacy!!!         61* d        18 May 06 - 10:01 PM
Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme         62* d        27 Feb 06 - 09:47 PM
BS: Art Thieme - a question for you         12        30 Jan 06 - 04:50 PM
Song samples & notes for Art Thiemes NEW CD         11        18 Oct 05 - 11:26 AM
Chord Req: State of Illinois (Art Thieme)         9        18 Oct 05 - 01:00 AM
Smithsonian solicits Art Thieme's photos         24        03 Oct 05 - 11:28 AM
Happy Birthday To Art Thieme         63* d        10 Jul 05 - 08:45 PM
Happy! - July 9 (Art Thieme)         1        09 Jul 05 - 09:50 AM
Art Thieme off line for move/renovation         17        09 May 05 - 01:07 PM
Art Thieme back on line...Nov. 11, 04         25        14 Nov 04 - 02:51 PM
Art Thieme's offline for a bit         11        01 Nov 04 - 04:56 PM
New Art Thieme material! 7 Feb.         21        15 Feb 04 - 09:54 AM
Art Thieme Discography?         3        26 Jan 04 - 07:41 AM
THANK YOU from Art Thieme !!!!         23        25 Jan 04 - 03:49 PM
Art's back! Welcome back Art Thieme         18        02 Dec 03 - 07:51 AM
Art Thieme says Hi!!!         6        26 Nov 03 - 12:28 AM
Art Thieme's Music On Radio - Nov. 15th         2        11 Nov 03 - 11:25 AM
Concert Hall Named in Art Thieme's honor-6 June!         38        09 Jun 03 - 03:31 PM
Tech: Looks like Art Thieme's computer is down         37        02 May 03 - 04:58 PM
Art Thieme & Utah Phillips: Honor 'Em!         11        15 Apr 03 - 10:55 AM
Good on you, Art Thieme!         23        15 Apr 03 - 07:05 AM
Art Thieme, Historian         42        20 Dec 02 - 12:42 PM
BS: Portraying an 'Art Thieme' in calendar         3        07 Dec 02 - 12:59 AM
BS: I may have known Art Thieme         4        24 Nov 02 - 10:34 PM
Art Thieme At Fox Valley Festival         12        06 Sep 02 - 10:20 PM
Message from Art Thieme         17        11 Aug 02 - 07:38 PM
ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!         61* d        23 Jul 02 - 04:38 PM
BS: Happy Birthday, Art Thieme!         51* d        09 Jul 01 - 11:02 PM
ART THIEME's Humour in Reader's Digest         24        02 Jul 01 - 11:42 PM
Lyr Add: Impeachment Time In Georgia (Art Thieme)         33        01 Oct 00 - 12:46 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ART THIEME & OTHERS!!         34        11 Jul 00 - 06:46 PM
Art Thieme's gem         18        09 Jul 00 - 12:00 AM
BS: Yo, Art Thieme         5        06 Mar 00 - 12:21 PM
art thieme/valdy         11        20 Jan 00 - 08:46 PM
Congrats to Art Thieme         41        07 Jan 00 - 10:27 AM
Art Thieme's 'Outright, Boldfaced Lies'         11        31 Dec 99 - 03:04 AM
Art Thieme's 'On The River' - Auction         7        04 Nov 99 - 08:08 PM
Art Thieme, Allen C.         70* d        20 Aug 99 - 07:00 PM
WYO NPR Features new Art Thieme CD!         7        13 Feb 99 - 05:39 PM

There are "Trace links" making it easy to trace all 50 theads.

—BK

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 26 May 08 - 06:05 AM

BK -

With the present setup, "art thieme" in the filter box and age "all" will get you the first thousand threads that have both "art" and "thieme" in the title. The list returned is limited to 1,000 threads now. ("Age: all" with no filter word(s) now gets only about 2 weeks worth.)

I guess it will take some "research" to see if that's sufficient to get all the places he's been cussed and discussed here (by name), although it should be a good start. There may be a few threads with just "Art" and/or just things like "the ESTEEMED AND HONORABLE MR THIEME" that would be missed with that search as well.

We heard a rumor that there was some guy gonna write up an autobigliogligraphy, so some may have figured that the guy who's gonna do it should do most of the work; but in the absence of any report on that work, maybe we need to do some diggin' around to help out(?).

John

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: BK Lick
Date: 25 May 08 - 11:05 PM

SRS asked: "is there a way to search ONLY the thread titles for his name, to narrow it down to the threads started by others..."
Sure -- just enter "art thieme" into the Filter box, select "Age: all" from the pull down menu, and click on "Refresh."

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: BK Lick
Date: 25 May 08 - 10:45 PM

Abby's URL

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Abby Sale
Date: 25 May 08 - 03:28 PM

Oh, horsepuckey, goddammn & phutt! I knew about this thread in September and didn't get to it. My only excuse is a blind, drunk, stupid (lady) driver in a van who was talking on the phone, doing her nails and chatting with her children in the back run me down just a week before. Plain run me over while I was out legally & safely (& even soberly - never drink and roll, friends) Rollerblading. I don't blame you for not believing me but I never would lie to my good friends. My URL: myspace.com/abbysale



Well, it was worth the pain just to finally catch this thread and some more terrific Thieminess. There couldn't be too much.



Thanks, Art.

Abby

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: topical tom
Date: 18 Feb 08 - 05:17 PM

Wonderful music and banter, Art!Thanks so much, BK, for providing such terrific, enduring folk music.

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Feb 08 - 12:59 PM

More to groan over this morning, when I found a CD from Art in my post office box. "Studs Turtle" indeed!

Thanks, Art! :)

That got me looking. I did a Mudcat Forum search on "Art Thieme" and find an avalanche of stuff, including (apparently) all of his 5000+ posts--all good, but takes a long time to go through. Is there a way to search ONLY the thread titles for his name, to narrow it down to the threads started by others, with quotes, remarks, discography, bibliography info, etc.? I'm sure I'm forgetting a step. I don't have them all traced in my list (and that's pretty long, over all of these years).

SRS

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Feb 08 - 11:30 PM

"Amy Carter took up skiing so she could go downhill with her dad."

Groan

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 12 Feb 08 - 01:21 AM

Good tunes, Art! Except for the excruciating Loch Moss Nester joke, you're the greatest!

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: GUEST,Alex
Date: 12 Feb 08 - 12:15 AM

Well, Some time ago (18+ months) I sent Sandy Patton an original tape of an Art Thieme concert video from the 1990's with a request for him to market it to Art's benefit. It was VHS with good audio. Perhaps petitions and subscription offers to Sandy might make this a possible video offering? Sandy - it's in your court!

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Stringsinger
Date: 11 Feb 08 - 04:40 PM

BK Thanks for sending us the mp3's. Great to have them.

Frank Hamilton

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Stringsinger
Date: 11 Feb 08 - 04:38 PM

Great stuff! Love Art's work. I downloaded 'em and got 'em in iTunes now. Thanks.
Good selection of songs and witty patter. His humanity comes through so well.

Frank Hamilton

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Feb 08 - 11:18 PM

Art, your songs are a joy. Thanks, BK.

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Feb 08 - 10:35 PM

It linked from another thread or I'd never have found it.

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Feb 08 - 09:24 PM

You would, Spaw! LOL!

Thanks, SRS, for the refresh!

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Feb 08 - 09:06 PM

Actually Kendall, I tend to go along with Dorothy Parker who modified that to say, "Brevity is the soul of lingerie."

Spaw

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Feb 08 - 09:02 PM

Thanks for refreshing this thread.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Amos
Date: 10 Feb 08 - 10:32 AM

Art Thieme, you are TOO good. I jes' love yer stuff all to bits.


A

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: kendall
Date: 10 Feb 08 - 06:55 AM

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Feb 08 - 12:42 AM

I love that line that "it took Studs 500 pages" to say what that one folksong line said. :)

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Art Thieme
Date: 27 Sep 07 - 12:37 AM

Charles, Thanks so much. I'm glad you're enjoying my stuff. I surely did enjoy doing it during those productive years. I remember your being here at Mudcat around '98 -- when I'd just found this site. It really was a needed quenching oasis for me.
Bruce, again, I'm grateful for all you've done.

Art

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: BK Lick
Date: 26 Sep 07 - 09:47 PM

Here are Art's People, Places, and River Years Photos. clicky here

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: chazkratz
Date: 26 Sep 07 - 08:17 PM

Art, I've had Chicago, Wilderness Road, and That's the Ticket in my car stereo for the last couple of weeks listening to them over and over in joy and wonder at your ability to bring a song to life and tell a story--and at your terrific banjo frailing. The Older I Get... is around the house somewhere, and when I find it it'll join the others in my iTunes and then in my car--and also, somewhere around the house, is the tape you sent me when I was trying to find the lyrics and tune for Fare Thee Titanic (gargoyle sent me the words at about the same time). That tape also has the herding turtles story--an absolute classic!

What is B.K.'s website with all your pictures?

Great to see you are still around Mudcat as master of the sheepfold.

Charles(--seed)

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Art Thieme
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 11:26 PM

Whew, Dan, ALWAYS, thanks for that, and for your friendship through the last 30 years. People, Dan Keding is a grand storyteller of world wide repute. He has written the storytelling column in Sing Out! magazine every issue for many years.
Daniel, it was great seeing you and Tandy recently. Love to you both.

Bruce, I wasn't aware of any of that, but whatever went down, I'm sure you're on top of it. Thanks!
People: B.K. is the one on whose website my folk scene photos are exhibited. Once again, he recently added a couple hundred of the photos I took the decade I played music on the Mississippi River.

All the best to you all,
Art

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: BK Lick
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 04:51 PM

Oops, sorry 'bout that -- I'd removed the original MP3 from the server when I put up the later ones. I've fixed things so clicking on the link in my original post will now redirect you to post number 8 instead of the manic depressive web server's 404 message.

—BK

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: nutty
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 11:46 AM

Didn't manage to hear the MP3 - sorry Art.

But was hugely entertained by the manic depressive web server - that really should be commercialised.

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 11:12 AM

Good way to describe our Fine Art, Dan.

Art, just listening, again. Still my very favourite, esp. that "Martin" saw!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: GUEST,Dan Keding
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 10:38 PM

Art,

As always, your music made me realize what a treasure we have in you. Your like an old ballad - each time I hear you I hear something new, something I missed the first time that just makes the song come alive again.

Take care my friend and we'll meet down the road soon.

Dan

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: David Zeman
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 08:25 PM

Dang... I wish I knew you were going to be in Manty... I would have traveled back.. give me an excuse to see my family again.

Hope Fritz and Mary are doing fine.

Dave

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Art Thieme
Date: 19 Sep 07 - 09:23 PM

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Brendy
Date: 17 Sep 07 - 07:32 PM

Excellent stuff, Art. Thanks for that BK.

B.

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: Art Thieme
Date: 16 Sep 07 - 09:34 PM

And Bob Gibson and Allan Damron were in on the finale of "Mama Don't Allow."

Pete had a terrible cold that day and couldn't sing much at all. Steve Goodman just TOOK OVER when he had to and everybody seemed to enjoy the show. Pete sang one line of a song, motioned to the audience to join him like he does, and everyone DID. Pretty soon the song was over. Then he did an instrumental or two. Or we all joined Pete...
Stage's Music Hall was sold out for both the day show and the night show. Good memories, for sure.

Art

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: BK Lick
Date: 16 Sep 07 - 09:15 PM

Art -- and Cindy was joined by Anne Hills and Steve was joined by Jethro Burns.

Subject: RE: A little vintage Art Thieme
From: kendall
Date: 16 Sep 07 - 05:15 PM

Your puns are a riot too. ..lock moss nesters indeed!