#folkies

finally crocheted a strap for my mandolin :-)

Daily writing promptDescribe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.View all responses OKAY, This is your alert! He’s so off on a Greenwich Village roll again! You Have Been Warned. I sat down to watch the movie ” A Mighty Wind” with some trepidation. Within moments, I was groaning at the portrayals of people who were almost like the folkies I had known. The movie cut, in a…

Daily writing promptTell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you.View all responses When I left for Boot Camp, I entrusted my mother with my three favorite possessions: my guitar, backpack, and the thousand-league spanning ( it seemed) D-ring Engineer boots. I didn’t part from these things in a lighthearted manner. They were at the core of my roaming ways; they were a…

Daily writing promptThink back on your most memorable road trip.View all responses Ohhh, he’s at it again! Well, they asked, and now I’ll have to pull some old chestnuts out of the archive. You don’t ask someone like me to recount our most memorable road trip. We sit there, look confused, and mutter, “Which one?” For lots of folks, it’s the cross-continent tour they did at twenty. It was buses,…

Pete Seeger

Burl Ives

Odetta

Joan Baez

Dave Van Ronk

Phil Ochs

Bob Dylan

Judy Collins

Joni Mitchell

The professor of my public speaking course said that I was a bit too laid back for my first speech in front of the class. It wasn’t a lounge lizard sort of vibe that was needed for the topic. After class, I explained that the only prior public speaking I had done was to introduce myself at gigs when I had been a folksinger. That and the patter you kept up while tuning the guitar, and between…

Our almost friend John dropped in for the annual Folkie Palace Christmas party. Our chef, the failed monastic, the Monk, had gleaned most of the feast from market stalls at the Haymarket. You could get great deals or even free ones if you showed up at closing time. There were multiple main courses, sides, and desserts. Wwhile the Monk had been preparing the food. the other denizens of the Palace…