In the 70s one of the hottest national folk venues was Charlotte's Web in Rockford, IL. Greg and I played there a lot (together and alone), as did Leon Redbone, John Prine, Steve Goodman and other top acts. The club owner recorded us live and that was the "lost" album, Hacklebarney.

Our shows were more like two person reviews. We each did 6 or so tunes  solo, then teamed up for mostly Greg's stuff. We were all so naive. The owner/producer* thought if he got two 2-track recorders and played them back at the same time, we'd get 4 track! I remember the first time he tried it and how good the first 5 seconds of the recordings sounded.

The recording got good reviews, but never had good distribution. Greg hates it and I think he still prowls used record stores in search of the last copies to dispose of. My discography is smaller than Greg's so I am more apt to include it. I need  it to make my recording history look like an actual list.

Hacklebarney, on the later-to-be-great Mountain Railroad label, is long out of print. The songs were Vintage Early Greg. They all referred to  sheep and/or death. One of the tunes we wrote together is on the album (Driftin') along with other songs found no where else.

* Stephen Powers learned his craft and went on to make his mark at Capitol Records, Chameleon Music Group and (currently) Drive Entertainment. He produced a gold record by John Lee Hooker and released Lowen and Navarro's first CD. He was music supervisor for major Hollywood films and championed the quirky Rhino Records in its first national distribution deal. He was voted Independent Record Executive of the Year in 1990.