Lightnin' Hopkins, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Dave Van Ronk, Jug Band Music, Pete Seeger, Guy and Candie Carawan, Hoyt Axton, Son House, Gary Snyder, Johnny Appleseed, The Marx Brothers, Lord Buckley, Captain Beefheart, Williana and Solomon Smith,
I feel so mean I feel like...kickin artis's ass! I first began singing that song of yours in the early 1980's! LOL! I still do it now and then! Fun stuff. I have a recording of you and Marty doing "Dr. Slide" somewhere in the archives as well...and still have the photos you took of Raw Sugar so many lifetimes ago. Hope you are doing well. I am doing an interesting women buskers project in school, learning a lot about women buskers in history. Did you know in the 1880's parents would RENT out kids to men who were supposedly "apprenticing" them in st performing, but these kids were like slaves and the practice ended with child labor laws, but there are accounts of things like a young girl playing violin in Toronto in the 1880's with an older blind male...been learning a lot about busker history in general. I thought it was also interesting that I read about a woman performer whose whole art installation was a statement re Disneyworld, but her comments on turnstiles intrigued me as they related to busking. She said at Disneyworld, you enter via a TURNSTILE, not a bridge which goes both ways. And from the minute of entry, all normal reality subsides and is replaced with fantasy. I think part of the intrique of busking is there is no turnstile, no marked boundary to say you are now in a PERFORMANCE ZONE...Gibralter also commented on how standing on the same level as the performer is unusual but for busking, stages are elevated...anyway, 30+ into this thing, and still going strong! Glad to see you still out there blowing them away!
Hello Walker !. Some SPAM jerk is sending out messages in my name (as you can see below). Please ignore it and be sure I will chase the bugger down with my doublebarrel shotgun ! Anyway - merry christmas and a happy new year !
I ordered your album and now, a week later, it has landed over here in Sweden. Wow, what great tunes, man ! Keep up the brilliant work !! Cheers for now.
The bus will be in your area once this snow goes away and the flowers trees begin to get green,,, How about a veggie bus ride then? www.businmotion.com
I've beed playing guitar and writing music since I was a kid, yet I would give my left nut to write one song half as beautiful as your "The River Song"! Keep'em coming.
Gadzooks Walker... here you are, accepting a free ride on my ether-train. It's been a couple of years since we traded tunes at Port Townsend. Redux, soon, perhaps.
