Arthur Thieme (July 9, 1941 – May 26, 2015) was an American

folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has b ...

ian. He specialized in traditional songs and stories from the Upper Midwest, though he collected and performed cowboy songs from the West as well. He was assistant manager of the Old Town Folklore Center in Chicago - 1964-1965 & 1966 (retail outlet for the

Old Town School of Folk Music The Old Town School of Folk Music is a Chicago teaching and performing institution that launched the careers of many notable folk music artists. Founded by Folk musicians Frank Hamilton and Win Stracke, and Dawn Greening, the School opened in the ...

), ran The Folk Art Shop in

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with his wife Carol in 1967 and 1968, sang all over the country for many years -including 37 years singing at the No Exit Cafe & Gallery in Chicago. He played in schools in the 6 counties in and around Chicago through the Urban Gateways arts & education agency for 22 years, was a host of National Public Radio's "Flea Market" radio show broadcast live from the Old Town School of Folk Music every Sunday afternoon in the mid-1980s, sang and told tales for about a decade on the steamboat

Julia Belle Swain The ''Julia Belle Swain'' is a steam-powered sternwheeler currently under restoration in La Crosse, Wisconsin, US. Designed and built in 1971 by Capt. Dennis Trone, the ''Julia Belle'' was the last boat built by Dubuque Boat & Boiler Works of Du ...

and the diesel boat Twilight on the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. A photographer pre 1960 through part of the 2000s (decade), Art has made his photos available to the public on the Mudcat internet site.

Discography

* ''Outright Bold-Faced Lies'', 1977

Kicking Mule Records Kicking Mule Records was an American independent record label, founded in Berkeley, California in 1971 by guitarist Stefan Grossman and Eugene "ED" Denson, formerly co-owner of Takoma Records. The company's name comes from the country blues sexu ...

* ''Songs Of The Heartland'', 1980

* ''That's The Ticket'', 1983

Folk-Legacy Records Folk-Legacy Records was an independent record label specializing in traditional and contemporary folk music of the English-speaking world. It was founded in 1961 by Sandy and Caroline Paton and Lee Baker Haggerty. The label recorded Frank Prof ...

* ''On the Wilderness Road'', 1986

* ''On The River'', 1988 Folk-Legacy Records * ''The Older I Get, The Better I Was'', 1998

Waterbug Records Waterbug Records is a small independent record label based in Glen Ellyn, Illinois specializing in singer-songwriters and traditional folk musicians who do original research. The label was founded as an artist cooperative label in 1992 by singer ...

* '' Art Thieme LIVE: Chicago Town & Points West'', 2006

References

External links

Illustrated Art Thieme discography
American folk musicians American folk singers American male singer-songwriters American banjoists Folk musicians from Chicago Old Town School of Folk musicians 1941 births 2015 deaths 20th-century American singer-songwriters 21st-century American singer-songwriters Singer-songwriters from Illinois 20th-century American male singers 21st-century American male singers Waterbug Records artists {{US-singer-stub