Reply #11: and of course the other Hank

[iverglas]

http://www.hanksnow.com/
The Canadian one.

And Wilf Carter (not of the Carter/Cash crew), for some reason known as "Montana Slim":
http://www.canuck.com/~trcr/bigwilf.html
(Oh look, I found a site with "canuck" in the url, and luna should note the spelling.)

I had lunch at Mickey Gillies' place somewhere in Texas once - his restaurant, that is. The Texan ex-co-vivant was apparently wont to sleep on Jerry Jeff Walker's floor and hang out with Stevie Ray Vaughn in his earlier days.

Me, I had a beer with Stan Rogers once before he died (duh ... and of course in a small-plane crash). Now there's a voice. Have a listen if you don't know him:
The "Northwest Passage" track here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003BTZ/qid=1087511714/sr=ka-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-8025882-4395210
(the clip unfortunately ends just as the good part starts)
and "Barrett's Privateers" here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003BU7/ref=pd_sim_music_2/002-8025882-4395210?v=glance&s=music
(god damn them all, I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold ...)

Then there's Ian & Sylvia, or more precisely Ian Tyson, who did go out to Alberta ("Weather's great there in the fall ... Four strong winds that blow lonely, seven seas that run wild ...") and has spent the last 20 years ridin' 'n ropin' things. Texas, Alberta, you know.

I won't mention Gordon Lightfoot, because he was apparently a hawk during Vietnam, I was told by the Texan who had gone to see him once back when he, the Texan, was living in Haight-Ashbury, and heard him do his hawk shtick. Maybe, like Neil Young and Reagan, Gordo was just temporarily insane.