Where Are they Now? PermaThread

Subject: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 07:43 PM

This is an edited PermaThread™, and all messages posted here are subject to editing and deletion.
This thread is intended to serve as a forum for information about folk performars of the past. Walking Eagle is responsible for control and edition of this PermaThread™.
-Joe Offer-

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Walking Eagle has requested permission to operate a "Where Are They Now?" PermaThread. I'm not quite sure what she's going to do with it or where she's going with it - but I'm sure it will be an interesting journey. It's all yours, Walking Eagle!
Many folk musicians who are currently performing can be found in another PermaThread, Folk Musician and Songwriter Links.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 08:05 PM

We've had a lot of requests on the 'cat lately wondering where folks and folksingers are. I thought it would be nice to have a Perma Thread where we can post our questions to and where we can give information on other's requests.

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 08:09 PM

I'll start first. I'm wondering the whereabouts of Peggy Smith. I think she lived in western N.C. She only recorded one record that I know of. It would have been in the mid 70's - 80's. She played dulcimer on it and sang some of the songs in Cherokee. She sounds like she was a trained singer.Any help?

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Banjoman_CO
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 10:14 PM

Walking Eagle, Don't know about Peggy Smith but here's a couple I've been wondering about. Casey Anderson - a black folksinger of the 70's. did some recording on Electra Records; Maxine Sellers, same time frame, did some recording on the Prestige Label.
I worked with both of them in those years but have lost track of them

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 11:00 PM

That's what I'm looking for. Hopefully, people will read this thread enough to pass along this type of information and ask these types of questions.

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 05:56 PM

Some earlier threads on this question:
Whatever happened to Derroll Adams?
Whatever happened to Vashti Bunyan??
Whatever happened to ... Dave Burland
NADIA CATTOUSE - whatever happened to?
Whatever happened to The Dublin City Ramblers
Howard Glasser - whatever happened to?
Help: Whatever happened to Judy Henske?
Whatever happened to John James
Help: Whatever happened to Jacquie Manning?
Whatever happened to Matt McGinn?
Whatever happened to the Talbot Bros?
Whatever Happened to The Wurzels?
Whatever happened to BRUNO WOLF??
Whatever Happened to William Zantzinger?
whatever happened to? (Niki Sullivan)
Review: Whatever happened to??? (Mixed bag)
whatever happened to....... (Another mixed bag, starting with Derroll Adams)
Whatever happened to..????? (And another mixed bag)

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Sorcha
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 07:27 PM

I'm still wondering about Don Crawford...American guitarist/singer. Tall,thin coffee coloured black man, popular in the late 60's/early 70's. I met him at the Mossman guitar factory in Winfield, Kansas in about 1968 or 69. He was also on the Jepordy quiz show in the US once.

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 31 Jan 04 - 05:52 PM

Refresh. Thanks for the additiions Suz. Please remember this Perma Thread and try to dig it up before posting a seperate thread. I'll try to keep it up so folks will get used to it.

The eagle who walks - - Julie

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 31 Jan 04 - 05:57 PM

I was thinking if we knew where they may have lived, a search of county records might reveal something. Does anyone know of a good way to do this kind of searching?

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 31 Jan 04 - 08:27 PM

I'm trying to find Jerry Rau, a wonderful singer and songwriter from Minneapolis. I also wonder if Mark Spoelstra surfaced again in recent years.. I loved his Folkways albums.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Allan C.
Date: 01 Feb 04 - 02:29 AM

Jerry, if nothing else, Mark will be appearing at the Adams Avenue Festival, (aka, 31st Annual Roots Festival) in San Diego, California in May. It appears that he was there last year as well; but don't know if he is considered a "regular".

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Allan C.
Date: 01 Feb 04 - 02:38 AM

Here's a link to a blurb about Jerry Rau's 65th birthday which I am guessing was last September.

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 01 Feb 04 - 07:03 AM

U Da Man, Allan!

Jerry

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Allan C.
Date: 01 Feb 04 - 03:14 PM

Walking Eagle, a quick search for ["Peggy Smith" Cherokee] on Google indicates that someone by that name has been extremely active in Cherokee and local (western N.C.) conservation activities. There was also someone by that name (unfortunately a common one) who ran a workshop at last year's Florida Folk Festival. Can't say if either is the same person you seek.

I hit nothing but dead ends on Maxine Sellers beyond a couple of references to recordings.

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 01 Feb 04 - 03:49 PM

Quite possibly is, thank you Alan C. I'll check on it.

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 01 Feb 04 - 07:57 PM

I sent some emails off to promising leads regarding Peggy Smith. I'll keep the thread posted.

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 01 Feb 04 - 11:52 PM

I saw an obit for Don Crawford somewhere a month or two ago, maybe less. Can one of our Denver area 'Catters come up with confirmation of the date? We knew him in Denver/Boulder/Aspen back in '59, but I can't remember who sent me the news of his death.
    Sandy

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 12:24 AM

Sandy, I searched the online archives of the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News and didn't find anything, sorry. I'll check a couple of other sources, though.

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: ray bucknell
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 08:53 AM

I would be interested to know whatever happened to Mike Pugh and David Boise. Pugh was the original baritone in the Chad Mitchell Trio, appearing on their debut album and their guest shot on "Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall" before leaving the group and being replaced by Joe Frazier. Boise actually replaced Joe Frazier at the end of the Trio's run, joining Mike Kobluk and John Denver on the Trio's final album. He later was part of the short-lived Denver, Boise and Johnson (that would be Michael Johnson, who's had quite a distinguished career since the 60s).

                                  'Ray

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 08:57 AM

I'd like to suggest that it might be helpful to people searching, later, if the name of the person sought were put in the subject line of each post.

~S~

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 08:58 AM

Also there were a few old threads found filtering under the title "where are they now"...

Cory & McKelvey...where are they now?
Help: Fivepenny Piece - where are they now?
Help: where are they now
Where are they now Chapter 3 (group)

~S~

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 09:30 AM

Help: Where is Debbie McClatchy?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=18918&messages=31

Janet Jones - Where did she go
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=65610&messages=5

Where IS Danny Spooner?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=61284&messages=11

Where's Tommy Sands?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=61875&messages=8

Where's Enda Kenny gone ?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=61315&messages=5

Where's Whizz? (Wizz Jones)
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=60047&messages=13

Whereabouts of Bob and Melody Thomason
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=59587&messages=7

Glenn Yarbrough, where is he now?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=53883&messages=19

Cory & McKelvey...where are they now?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=52900&messages=4

Tom Taylor ? Did Woody---Where is he?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=7839&messages=8

MARY O'HARA - where is she know?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=8922&messages=45

Where is Roger Perkins?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=51158&messages=1

Bill Clifton, where are you now??
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=47147&messages=3

Where is JUDY FLENNIKEN?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=47059&messages=4

Where is Laura Smith
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=45476&messages=2

Where are theyt now....Bob Hyman
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=45372&messages=1

Help: where is John Crane, illustrator?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=43689&messages=3

Help: Fivepenny Piece - where are they now?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=43472&messages=7

Barry Dransfield: Where Are You Now?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=19680&messages=29

Where, oh where,... Billy Ed Wheeler?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=11486&messages=12

Joan Crane -- Where Is She?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=41787&messages=6

Where is Lonnie D...
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=31826&messages=9

Folk group whereabouts?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=28494&messages=4

Malcolm Price - where is he now?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=38162&messages=2

Help: whereabouts of Ken Haferman
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=38180&messages=1

Help: Where Is Ewen Carrothers?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=37477&messages=8

Keith Brown where are you
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=34957&messages=61

Help: Sheila & Graham Neimes where are you?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=33494&messages=2

Tom McEwan: where is he?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=33478&messages=10

Alister Anderson Where is he now?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=30107&messages=18

Where is Dave Guard?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=29677&messages=8

Where is Larry McNeely?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=29273&messages=1

Where is Roy Guest?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=29122&messages=15

Where is eddie brown today?/ joe&Eddie
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=27977&messages=1

Where is Rambling Jack?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=27249&messages=5

Vera Lynn - where are you?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=26507&messages=10

Where is Gary Troxel??? Dum, dum, da...
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=25839&messages=5

Help: Whereabouts of Willie Johnson
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=24356&messages=5

Help: Where are Emery, Schmidt, & McCann?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=24311&messages=1

Where is Joe Offer?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=24121&messages=10

:~)
:~)

Where is Jack Tarr?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=24083&messages=2

Help: wHERE IS THIS GUY?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=23141&messages=4

Help: Where is Richard Thompson?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=21529&messages=7

Where are The Bobs?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=20676&messages=5

Bridget St. John - where now?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=18121&messages=4

Where's Joe Offer?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=13064&messages=13

Again!
:~)
:~)

Harry and Jeannie West: Whereabouts
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=12978&messages=2

Bob Clayton Where are you?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=11764&messages=11

The Matthews Brothers - where are they?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=11467&messages=4

North Sea Gas - where's Colin?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=10846&messages=1

Ollie where are you
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=8093&messages=2

Where are you Paul McNeill?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=7503&messages=1

Carl Oglesby (where?)
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=4628&messages=4

Wheres Bodie Wagoner these days?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=3171&messages=4

David Taylor - where r u?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=2052&messages=1

Biff Baillie - Where are you
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=1579&messages=1

Where Is God Book Two
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=41583&messages=41
just checking if you're paying attention

BS: Owen Hugh, where are you???
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=17766&messages=1

BS: Where's your mind at?
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=14319&messages=6
could not resist

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 05:00 PM

Where is Joan Crane?

I'm still looking for Joan Crane -- great guitarist & singer, does Adirondack folk, blues and rags.

She used to live in upstate New York, then moved to either Michigan or Indiana and we lost touch. I just found out (only late by half a year) that she performed at last year's (2003) Champlain Valley Folk Festival.

If anyone knows her e-mail or snail mail address, please PM me.

Linn

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 06:15 PM

Wys,

Thanks for the additions. I have a few thoughts as well about PermaTHreads in general that I might take up the powers that be.

Folks, please include any information that you know about the performer, such as last known whereabouts, titles of albums they have out, and what type of music they played. You might want to put in their approximate age at the time you saw them. Pictures of them? Scan them and put in as a blue clickie.

No answers yet to my emails regarding Peggy.

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Allan C.
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 06:36 PM

Linn, at the bottom of this page is an email address for Susan Hamlin who has appeared with Joan Crane. Maybe she would know how to contact Joan.

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: GUEST,Matt Fan
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 06:40 PM

The best places for info about the late great Matt McGinn are www.theballadeers.com and www.mattmcginn.info

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 01:09 PM

Thanks, Allan C. -- but an e-mail bounced. I think that site hasn't been revised for awhile, either.

I'll continue the search.

Linn

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 02:11 PM

Help: Where is Debbie McClatchy?

Has recently joined the computer age!

http://members.cox.net/debbymcclatchy/

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 03:02 PM

Sandy, I checked the Social Security Death records at Ancestry.com but didn't find a likely Don Crawford. Sorry.

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 03:26 PM

The post about McClatchy just above offers an example of the many problems that need to be addressed, IMO, about how to best do a thread like this.

WHERE will the new information go, if there is already a thread about an individual, and HOW LONG will it remain timely? Imagine that problem compounded by all the vast numbers of "where" threads already going.

IS the "found" information still timely and relevant, so long after the question has been asked (not just McClatchy but all those many requests), or has someone already found the person and simply not come back here and told all of US about it?

IF we find someone (say on a given day in 20040 is that of any use to someone looking for the artist LATER, for instance to buy new recordings?

And, are we looking for what people should find for themselves via Google and other search engines, or are we looking for sightings and details by Mudcatters?

~Susan

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Allan C.
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 03:52 PM

Good questions, Susan. For instance, as best I can tell from examining the first few threads you listed:
Help: Where is Debbie McClatchy?
Janet Jones - Where did she go
Where IS Danny Spooner?
Where's Tommy Sands?
Where's Enda Kenny gone ?
Where's Whizz? (Wizz Jones)
Whereabouts of Bob and Melody Thomason
Glenn Yarbrough, where is he now?
Cory & McKelvey...where are they now?
Tom Taylor ? Did Woody---Where is he?
MARY O'HARA - where is she know?

what appears to be good information was given in response. Ostensibly, the cases were solved. But the person who posted the original question may not have ever indicated whether contact was actually accomplished (if that was the goal.)

It would seem a starting point would be to have a monitored thread not unlike the missing tunes thread in which, once the tune is reunited with the song, the entry is removed from the list. But in the missing persons threads, it is often impossible to know if the search is really over without input from the original poster.

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 07:13 PM

I'm taking all of these things under consideration. I've never done anything like this and I appreciate all ideas. There must be a different way to keep tabs on the questions other than having to go through the entire thread.

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 10:23 PM

Yup, sumpin' to think about all right.

~S~

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 07 Feb 04 - 12:35 PM

To hi Tsu.

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 08 Feb 04 - 06:04 PM

My bad, friends. I misremembered. The obit I saw was for Walt Conley. He was the guy we knew in Colorado back in 1959/60. I have no current news on the whereabouts of Don Crawford. Sorry to have misinformed you all, and special apologies to Don Crawford!
      If you see this, Don, please write to us at Folk-Legacy, Box 1148, Sharon CT 06069.
    Sandy

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Feb 04 - 07:42 AM

Where are Hedy West, Walter Forbes and Five Hand Reel ?

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 09 Feb 04 - 04:35 PM

I know it's a drag folks, but please check the Forum archives for this thread before asking the whereabouts of someone. I'm trying to keep it refreshed but I don't get to this site for some days and when I do, I always refresh it. You need only type it in in the dialog box and check forum. Many threads will come up The one marked with Walking Eagle will enliven it.

WaDo, do nah do goh ha neh!
Walking Eagle

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Feb 04 - 10:12 PM

"WaDo, do nah do goh ha neh!"
I hope that was something nice! By the way, Walking Eagle, I've always loved your name. Describes me more often than you, though.

One can add trace this thread (it adds a link to one's personal page), or if someone's a guest, they can add a bookmark.

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 04:48 PM

Does anyone know what bluesman Michael Bloomfield is up to now? Still recording or what?

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Allan C.
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 05:29 PM

Michael Bloomfield's website should give you some clues.

Subject: Where Is Norman Kennedy?
From: Teresa
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 06:22 PM

Whatever became of Norman Kennedy, the Scottish traditional singer. I saw him in San Francisco about 20 years ago ... don't know if he is still with us. He did the most haunting version of a song which had the lines: "sae wantonly, sae rantin'ly ... gaed he. He danced aroun' an' he sang a tune, all roun' the gallaes tree"

Apologies for dim memory and bad spelling!
Teresa

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Allan C.
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 06:26 PM

Teresa, could this be the person you mean?

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Allan C.
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 06:35 PM

If so, it appears that the same Norman Kennedy performed in Houston just this past weekend.

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: RangerSteve
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 06:42 PM

Guest from Feb. 9. Hedy West is still around and contributed to a thread or two about herself at this site. As for Walter Forbes, I don't know much about him, but County Sales is advertising a CD of two of his old records at their site. If you buy the CD, there might be some current info about him in the notes.

Subject: RE: Norman Kennedy
From: Teresa
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 07:26 PM

Thanks, Allan! Glad to see he is still doing the songs. He's a treasure. :)
Teresa

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Deckman
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 08:23 AM

I think this is a useful thread. Some time ago, I asked about Terry Wadsworth. I was contacted by his brother who informed me that Terry passed aways some time ago. If someone wants to contact me, I can give them some details. Thanks again, Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: GUEST,Margret Roadknight
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 09:35 AM

Any news of Browning Bryant?

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Allan C.
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 10:21 AM

The most recent info I could find on John Baxter Browning Bryant unfortunately ends with his appearance on the Johnny Carson Show in 1970. He was originally from Greenville, South Carolina and later moved to Pickens, SC. He seems to have gained his initial recognition through association with Eddy Arnold and Johnny Cash, and appeared with them on the Kraft Music Hall. Browning's first hit was "Games That Grown-up Children Play" which appeared on the first of two albums on the Dot label. A subsequent hit was "Papa Says Dawn Holds Another Day"

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 04:34 PM

Thanks Allan, guess I should have Googled first. I have Googled about Peggy Smith, nothing. And nothing from my email notes that I sent.

Subject: RE: Where Are they Now? PermaThread
From: GUEST,Margret RoadKnight
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 07:11 PM

Thanks, Allan.
I knew some of that early stuff about the "teenage singer" Browning Bryant .....
Wondering if he's the same Browning Bryant who wrote "Cure My Blues" (recorded by Ellen McIlwaine around 1980), and if so, did he write more gems, and is he still 'out there'.....
Cheers
Margret RoadKnight
(seems I'll have to rejoin, so as not to appear as Guest)