218 thoughts on “Chat Room”

  1. Michael MacLeod

    Howdy, Bob.
    You probably don’t remember me. I was sound guy for the Nickelodeon and the Calgary Folk Club and Festival for many years, but I certainly remember you.
    I’m glad your music is still available and I’ve just ordered a few CDs.
    If you’re ever out around Victoria, look me up. and if you’re still performing, I’d love to host you in a house concert.
    Mike Macleod

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    1. Bob Evans

      Hi Mike. You bet I remember. The Nickelodeon, Calgary Folk Club, Rocky Mountain Folk Club, Calgary Ski Club … I absolutely loved the Calgary folk scene.

      I think the last time we saw each other was when I bought a Fluke from you at the FAMI summer camp somewhere around 2010. Thanks for tracking me down. I hope things are going well on the island.

      Bob

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  2. Wil Findlay

    Not sure if you remember me Bob but we played together at the folk guild a couple of times plus 73 and 4 folk festival. Nice to see you keeping it up.

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    1. Bob Evans

      Hello Bill! Indeed I do remember. We’ve thought about you a number of times over the years. Who’d a thought fifty years would go by so quick? I’ll drop you a note off line shortly to catch up. Thanks for tracking me down.

      Bob

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  3. bryanedington@yahoo.com

    Thanks Bob, I’ve always loved fingerstyle guitar, especially ragtime. You have created the best tool I’ve ever seen to learn guitar. The video lessons are amazing. I only wish there were more.

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    1. Bob Evans

      Thanks Bryan. Glad you find them useful. I would have liked to create more of the video lessons but I had to quit playing guitar due to inflammatory osteoarthritis. But it’s great to hear the arrangements live on with others learning to play them.

      Bob

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  4. chris charowsky

    Hi Bob, thanks for sending your cd to me in Bowmanville. I’ve got three other of yours (bought the old fashioned way). I just wanted to drop you a note after reading your liner notes. I was also at the first Regina Folk Festival mainly to hear my brother play with his “old timey” band–It may have been The Incandescent Saffron Jug Band or The Chicken Flatts Jug Band ( or may be something else). He played a lot of blues on his own in various coffee houses in Winterpeg. He usually went by “John Paul” (John Charowsky didn’t sound bluesy enough). Graham Card was a friend of his–I say was because John passed away about 8 years ago. Dave Mclean often spent time at my brother’s house “stealing” guitar licks… Anyway, If the feeling moves you I can also reached at 905-419-6765.
    Thanks again, Chris

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    1. Bob Evans

      Hi Chris! Sorry for the delay responding to you. Indeed I do remember your brother’s band! I remember them playing as the John Paul Juke Band at the 2nd Regina Folk Festival. It was hearing them and the Dumptrucks at the festival that year that inspired us to form The National Washboard and Company (we were only in grade 10 – ouch!). And then I remember him performing as the Chicken Flatts String Band. He obviously enjoyed switching up band names! 🙂 Sorry to hear he has passed. Winnipeg had a great folk music scene (probably still does). We met Don “Fiddler” Zeuff (sp?) through the Chicken Flatts as well.

      Bob

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    2. Halvy

      Hello, I am a former member of the Incandescent Saffron (1968-69) and while searching the same I came across this post. John Paul was with the group as well as Don “Fiddler” Zueff, Allan Racketti, Jackie Goodman (Cooper) and Marilyn Moore. I think it would have been January 69 that we drove out from Wpg. to play The Regina Folk Festival. I recall Ian Tyson was on the bill w/ Great Speckled Bird, not Sylvia though. I had been playing in blues bands previously but meeting and working with John Paul was a great inspiration. An early introduction to country blues, he taught me some slide techniques. On of my favorite songs he played was ” God Damn Your Eyes” Remembering him, he loomed large, bearded and imposing but was a very kind fellow.

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  5. Albert Them

    It is a pleasure to purchase your album with “Dickie’s Blues #2” on it. I have admired its complexity and brilliance since you performed it on a Kicking Mule album that is cherished and worn. In the early ’70s Felix Grant hosted “The Album Sound” on evening drive time radio in Washington, D.C. He played a recording of Maple Leaf Rag that got me pleasantly hooked on ragtime. In fifty years of listening, your arrangement is the one I like best. Thanks for your thoughtful efforts.

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    1. Bob Evans

      Thanks very much Albert. I’m always amazed at the number of people who bring up the work I did on Kicking Mule records … half a century ago! Ouch! 🙂 I have to give credit to my friend Jim McLennan who recorded the Kicking Mule cover of my tune Dickie’s Blues #2. While Maple Leaf Rag is a much more well known tune, you get full points for remembering my more obscure original piece from so long ago. Bravo! 🙂

      Bob

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