My Sweet Wyoming Home

13.My Sweet Wyoming Home 4:01
Bill Staines / Mineral River Music (BMI)

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I first met Bill Staines (1947-2021) in 1973, when we hired him to do a concert for the Cornell Folk Song Club straight off his demo tape. This was before folksingers had media packs and sent photographs, and when we went to make the poster we had no idea what he looked like. But we knew he played guitar, so our resident poster-maker, John Bric, made a poster with a silhouette of a man sitting on a stool playing guitar. How could we go wrong?

As the world and all now knows, Bill was left-handed and played the guitar upside down and backwards. Bill traveled more than three million miles around the US singing the hundreds of songs he wrote, likely the all-time record for miles driven by a folksinger. "I have the log books," he said back around the time he hit two million miles.