Gerry ... I assume you know that Allan died back in the late summer.

I don't remember what I was doing when this recording came out.

I was busy with something.

I bought the Cd .... still have it ... and I paid little attention to it.

I was totally pissed that Nick, Bob & John had come to an end in 1967.

Allan and I became good friends Probably a year before he began working on his book.

Bob told me about him. I'm a lawyer and so was Allan. Bob told me that there was a lawyer in Chicago who was a big trio fan that I needed to get to know and he gave me Allan's address. I wrote to him and sent him some of my bootleg recordings. He wrote back and sent me some of his. That's how it got started with us. Since we were both lawyers, we could see behind a great deal of what was going on in the folk music scene.

The last time I talked to him was about 3 months before he died. He was pretty weak. He was not able to go to the last camp.

We had a great friendship.

For me, the most interesting thing about this recording is that it's of a concert that was in Kentucky.

I've lived in Kentucky most of my life.

I never knew that this show was taking place.

What I'd like to know is who did the recording.

I'm sure that John August Lee knows.

The interesting thing about this recording is that "Hard Ain't It Hard" was taken from this recording and it was put on my recoding of the show at the University of Kentucky because there was a blank space in the middle of the song on my recording.

My recording has an interesting story. My original tape was the thinnest tape Scotch made.


I had no idea how long a show was... so I got the longest playing tape I could get.

This was good because there was a very, very long "warm-up" act .... a local folk singer. He went on and on and on. His singing took up half of one side of the tape.

The show was in 1963. In about 1968 I copied it to another tape.

When John went to work on the tapes, the original one had disintegrated. The copy was still good.

I don't remember ... some time in mid 1990s, Allan took the 2nd tape and put it on some CDs.

This was totally unedited.

We tried to get Bob to let us make CDs to sell from this.

He said he didn't like the sound of it.

It was all mono... because it was recorded in mono.

I think the fact that it was mono was what Bob didn't like.

John took the 2nd tape and the CD that Allan had and turned it into stereo and of course he boosted the fidelity.

I still have the CDs of the original mono recording somewhere.

I once listened to it after John did his thing ... I also still have the 2nd tape copy....

I like both versions... but, the mono version is real.

To me... the greatest tragedy is that Capitol recorded over the original Hungry I tapes. I would have loved to have heard that entire concert.

To me... Stereo Concert is close ... but no cigar. Texas is not San Francisco.










































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