Biography

Got his start in a folk group called the Rum Runners.

During the 1990s and 2000s he performed a one-man show as Mark Twain.

First came to prominence in 1968 as half of a duo, with his then-wife Cathy, called Friend and Lover. After moving to New York, the duo scored a national top 10 single in 1968 with the love-and-protest anthem "Reach Out of the Darkness," released on the Verve Forecast label.

In 1971 he produced and played on an album of Chicago folk musicians, Gathering at the Earl of Old Town, that included the first recording of Steve Goodman's 'City of New Orleans'.

Performed throughout the Midwest in the '70s and '80s, while also serving as a regular presence on Chicago's Old Town folk circuit.