Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 09:47 PM

Chance, was that a mangled guitar on that Getaway stage, eh? Or was that your twin sitting behind it? He sounded pretty good too. *G*

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 09:17 PM

How's your speaking voice, Art? I think there would be a number of folks who would want to hear you talk about the folk process and your experiences within it.

SRS

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Cruiser
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 09:13 PM

A moving, inspiring article.

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 04:44 PM

Chance and all,

Thanks but...

The voice ain't nothing now--even less than the normal 6 note range I once could manage. Too many breathing tubes put through the vocal cords over the years. Result is like a genetically engineered Rod McKuen & Van Ronk hybrid clone. Nothing I'd ever want people to have to pay to hear. Other factors too.

Art

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Big Mick
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 07:59 PM

Count me in with Chance, pal.

Mick

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Fortunato
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 07:17 PM

Refresh

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 01:49 PM

Hurrah for you, Chance!!! That's a brill idea!!

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Fortunato
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 01:46 PM

Art.
I very much enjoyed reading that article and your posts the last few years. Art, you've got sand and grit, and I ain't one damn bit surprised.

I can't play the banjo. But I can play the guitar pretty good. If you can sing and want to record sometime. I'll just pack up my Gallagher and come to where you say. I reckon we could find us a banjo player. I'd be honored to be your hands. I know Rick Fielding would have done it if he could, 'cause we talked about you. And I can and damn sure will do it if you see fit.

And that's no bullshit.

Chance Shiver

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 11:37 AM

I hadn't noticed that my cookie had crumbled when I did my earlier posting on this thread. So, I'll say it again............................Kat, thanks for posting this. Art, thanks for deserving it. All the best to you and carol from Elaine and me. Burl.

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 12:59 AM

And Jean, thanks to you for your two cents. ;-)   And for all of your years of music.

Art

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Bert
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 07:42 PM

fledgling ... Oh that was probably a reference to those "Lock Moss Nesters".

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 05:37 PM

Just back from two weeks away, and in this morning's mail (2/23/06) there was a copy of your article from Lynn Van Matre herself- very nice that she sent me one, and I certainly feel honored to have my two cents-worth used therein, Art. Congratulations and thanks for the happy memories, and love to you both!    Jean

PS: No criticisms intended- but we wondered why, three sentences from the end of the piece, the writer was still referring to you as, "the fledgling folksinger..."

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 04:57 PM

Once it's posted this link will take you there.

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 03:16 PM

Thanks for the photo, Art. I have sent it on to Pene/Jeff and asked that it be added to your Mudcat photo page.

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 02:49 PM

refresh----for Ms Anna

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 04:16 PM

Kat, thank you so much for bringing that to us. Art, thank you for being so deserving of it. Love from Elaine and me. Burl.

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 03:16 PM

Great! You could get Pene Azul to put them up with Art's other photos here at Mudcat.

SRS

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 02:48 PM

You all are most welcome.

SRS, with Art's permission, I will scan in the photos and post them with a link. Might take me a day or so. It's kinda busy around here through the weekend.:-)

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 01:34 PM

Wonderful read. Thanks Art, for you are truly a legend in your time eh? I am honored to have your Chicagotown Blues on the Strawberry.
Thanks Kat.

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Kaleea
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 11:23 AM

If one takes the time to look beyond the curtain of "Folk Music," one sees the many women & men who have persevered the decades and taught the Music of the people to each successive generation.
Pay attention to the people behind the curtain.

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 10:58 AM

This is a great story. I went looking around to see if they have a web version of the paper so maybe we could see the picture also, but there doesn't appear to be one. Too bad!

Over on this thread a few of us have decided to be proactive and help get Art going on transferring some of those cassettes to CD. It's an informal process.

SRS

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Big Jim from Jackson
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 10:58 AM

I met Art only once and briefly at the Big Muddy Festival in Boonville. I have corresponded a tiny bit with him and he has very kindly sent me material (that was not released on any record!) to be used on my radion show. If there is a better personification of a folk muscian anywhere out there, I've yet to meet him or hear of him. And a quick look at the people on this thread, many of whom are pretty important "somebodies", and have expressed their admiration for him is an indication of just who and what he is. You don't inspire comments from people like these without being something very special. I am in awe.                   Jim Hickam

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 09:33 AM

Beautifully put as always, Art.

Yes, Peter, he IS>

I just got a note from Lynn, who wrote the article. The paper in which the article and pictures were printed is sent out to 500,000 people, that's half a million, folks!! She is hopeful, as I am, that many of them will seek out his CDs.

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Peter T.
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 09:27 AM

It is still a puzzle to me why more countries don't take up the Japanese model of "National Cultural Treasures" -- Art is one, that is for sure.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 11:36 PM

Friends, I truly am thankful for the amazing creative lot of you! Phil, Mick, Kat, Azizi, Pat, Joe, Dick, Mark, Jerry----all 'o you. (I've even actually met some of you!! Will wonders never cease.) A few I know well. Others, just on the phone---and floating here in cyberspace with you. Thank you for puttin' up with me...and to Sandy and Caroline for puttin' me in their stable --- and Jerry for actually puttin' me up in his wondrous museum there in Stamford. I met a ghost there one night; he gave me a song--and a pun. Both are on the 1998 CD...

Jerry will tell you, I don't know what to make of this kind of tribute stuff. Just know I do appreciate it, and I truly wish I could tell Steve Goodman, and Del Bray, and Paul Durst, and Kate Wolf, and Freddy Holstein, and Bob Gibson, and Bill Chipman, and Arvella Gray and Lee O.B. Quiggins some of the things you've laid on my person of late. I didn't do much to deserve it I don't think. --- I only put one foot and one gig in front of the other through all the years. I sang into thin air and, alchemically, somehow, turned those miles into the rent. I'm glad and grateful you took to some of it. ----- Just know this: Once I saw that the songs were a way to time-travel through history, I was hooked! -----------As Buddy Mondlock said in my favorite song of his, there was "No Choice."

--- Thanks for going on part of the Grail hunt with me. To some it probably looked like tilting at windmills, and some of it definitely was that. But a singer once said I might find some answers in those gusty zephyrs-----even if them roads were often too hot & dusty-stormy to see our way real clearly.

I'm done. It's gettin' late and tomorrow is a busy day. I go on like this when I'm too tired and, actually, too moved by all you good people to respond coherently. Consider this one man's try at saying THANKS!

Love,

Art

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Francy
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 09:52 PM

Mighty Fine Art.......keep on keepin' on...Your friend in life & music Frank of Toledo

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Big Mick
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 08:26 PM

I often speak of the miracle of the Mudcat. For all its warts, it has caused me to rub cyber elbows with the likes of Art Thieme. kat, you have been such a true friend to him and to the rest of us, I am in your debt for doing this work.

Art, I am so fortunate and honored to have come to know you. I believe you are one of folk music's true treasures. Congratulations on this wonderful tribute. I will be in Chicago for the Wobblie convention later this year and hope we can hook up. No drive too long, my friend.

Much love,

Mick

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 03:59 PM

A great article. Lynn Van Matre is a good writer and covered folk for the Trib long after it was no longer cool. I just finished posting on the "first song" thread that Jerry Rasmussen started and was thinking about the first time I saw Art perform. He was doing a Friday night at Juicy John Pink's in Dekalb, Illinois. I remember the fish puns (when I was first introduced to him a few years later, I mentioned that and he said he was trying to forget those). Also all the great songs like, "Here's to You Rounders." I know that Margaret and I always preferred playing on the Flea Marker broadcasts when Art was hosting.

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 03:55 PM

Geez, Spaw, there's gotta be something you can work with...maybe something about the locks being the only thing he couldn't pick!:-)


BD...LOL...groan!:-)

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: greg stephens
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 03:49 PM

Great stuff Art. A great read. Been through a few locks myself, and waited for them too!

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Azizi
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 03:38 PM

Congratulations, Art!

I'm glad that you're getting some of the national recognition that you deserve.

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: M.Ted
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 03:25 PM

I would have been even more impressed, except that I have been following Mr. Thieme's entertaining and edcuational commentary here for many years. You keep it interesting around here, Art. Gotta get that new CD--

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 11:42 AM

Art, although that IS a fine write-up and the very least you deserve, somehow I missed a bit of you in there and I wondered if you failed to tell the writer that the barges were often filled pigeons and hammers................I mean I couldn't find a pun anywhere and punning is a thieme that is all Art.................and that one really stunk.

You deserve all the best!

Pat

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Mark Ross
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 10:42 AM

Great write-up, thanks for posting it. Art, congratulations, most people don't get to hear people talk about them like that unless they're listening in at their own funeral.


Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Willie-O
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 10:32 AM

You're not allowed to make stuff up :)

I don't check in on the Cat all that often anymore but this was well worth it. I am still waiting for Art to outdo that "misdeweiner" pun though.

Looking forward to an even bigger groan

W-O

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 10:09 AM

Okay...this is the way they came up:

Fun With Mangled Lyrics         
Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme

I'm not making this up, you know.

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Dharmabum
Date: 21 Feb 06 - 09:10 AM

Thanks for posting that Kat.
A truely enjoyable read.
It seems no matter what batch of cd's I'm currently listening to,one of Art's is always in the mix.

B.T.W.
Did you know that Lorena Bobbit had a sister who tried to do the same thing to her husband?
She wasn't quite as accurate with her knife though,& she cut his leg.

She was charged with a .............misdeweiner.

DB.

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 10:23 PM

Thanks, Ebbie! Between you, Amos,a nd Cluin, I think I've finally got them all.:-) My grandson came home in the middle of my typng this up and was ever so helpful as he sat on my desk, listening to me explain how I needed to do this for a dear friend. He loved your pix, Art!:-)

My pleasure folks. Thanks to Art and Lynn AND Carol!

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 10:03 PM

What a great writeup! Thanks, kat. What a treasure.

Incidentally, - and I'm sure you'd catch the error later - in paragraph 3 Art's name is turned inside out.

Eb

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Amos
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 08:57 PM

Isn't he the guy who wrote that smash cutting-edge song, "Lorena"?


A

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 08:53 PM

Say, folks, thanks for your way too kind comments. And thanks to Ms Kat for typing all that up here. That's a chore and a half. I'm not sure how this all came about, but it is quite nice to see. Lynn Van Matre wrote for the Chicago Tribune for MANY years---and she is now freelancing. Ever since the '70s she has been very kind to me in print; my old promo packet was at least a third made up of her writings. I suspect that Blue Cross/Blue Shield figured some of their Illinois insured people might recall a few of my old puns and songs etc. As the old song says, "It's grand to be re-membered." Ask John Wayne Bobbit if you doubt that!!

Love to you all,

Art

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: bbc
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 07:52 PM

Thanks, kat. What a pleasure to read! And what a pleasure it's been to get to know you, Art!

best always,

Barbara

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 07:51 PM

Well done, Art- and thanks Kat dear for sharing it with us!

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: bet
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 07:45 PM

Something told me to click and read. What a great man. I feel honored to know about you Art and have an association with wyou through the Mudcat.
bet

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Auggie
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 07:25 PM

Congratulations, Art (and thank you,Kat)

By the way, your music could be heard last night on WPR's Simply Folk program. They aired the title track of the "That's the Ticket" LP. And during pledge week no less, when they obviously trot out only their finest.

Best Regards,
Auggie

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Bert
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 07:12 PM

Shut up Garg, you twerp.

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Barry Finn
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 06:57 PM

Thanks for the write up Kat, it was real nice of you to share this with us. Well deserved Art, most of us folkies have known, even us who've never met you, how treasured you are, it's realy nice to see that recognition goes beyond our own little community. Well done & well lived.
Barry

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 06:01 PM

What a delight, Art: No one deserves it more than you..

Jerry

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 06:01 PM

All that, and he's still optimistic about the Cubbies.... Watta guy!

Subject: RE: Beautiful write-up on Art Thieme
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Feb 06 - 05:44 PM

Art, I wouldn't worry about coming before Beethoven - he's much older than you!

;-)