We are trilled* at the publicity for the Mythic Figs in the excellent article on the Gallery Cabaret [Our Town, April 29], one of the remaining strongholds for The Arts. Proprietor Ken Strandberg is in the Mythic Fig Hall of Fame for his continuing support.
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(I) No article about music at the Gallery (or in Chicago, if not the midwest) would be complete without mention of Mythic Fig Earl Pionke, “Thee Earl of Old Town.” It was at his joint that all of us older players originally met; he has no joint open now, but stay tuned . . . Incidentally: To identify the descriptions given in the story, p. 46: The “guy who got some national radio play a few years ago” is Mythic Fig Jim Post, and the one who wrote a song for Arlo Guthrie is [the L8, gr8] Steve Goodman–“City of New Orleans.” Both, of course, rose not from the Gallery, but from the Earl of Old Town, just north of North Avenue on Wells Street, when Old Town was in its heyday.
(III) Please augment my quoted self-description to add–“pacifist anarchist revolutionary”; I wouldn’t want anyone to get the wrong idea, and I promised my Mother I’d try 2 set the record straight.
CJ
