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"[We] took part [at The Ark] in two of the most enlightening workshops about folk music we could have imagined...If you get an opportunity to hear Joe Hickerson in a workshop or concert, make it a priority to be there."
"[Joe is an] amazing showman and tradition bearer."
"Joe Hickerson...represents everything right about what folk music used to be and still can be."
"Devoted agent and friend."
"His presentations are always informative and entertaining - The depth of his knowledge and talents is extraordinary."
"My ultimate role model for being both musician and archivist."
"Folklorist singers came through the Twin Cities also and you could learn
songs from them, too - old-time performers like Joe Hickerson..."
"To Joe - A hero to me."
"Joe Hickerson is my favorite singer. He can make any song sound good. There are many songs that a lot of us thought were plain old everyday songs until Joe learned them and then all of a sudden we realized how neat they were. Pete Seeger is the only other person who ever did that consistently."
"He's a great songleader - not just a good songleader, a great one."
"Hickerson has an unerring ear for a good song. His albums are for people who love singing and beautiful songs. With a few exceptions, they are old songs, treasures that will surely become well known again as a result of Hickerson's recording them."
"[Hickerson] is a pleasure to hear, and when it comes to folk music, he knows whereof he speaks."
"It was a Hickerson evening and, because of that, a delightful and different evening of folk singing."
"...quite simply, Joe just knows how to sing a folk song.... He has a way of opening up a song for a whole group of people, making it available for all to share."
"Joe Hickerson is a 'legend in his own time.' Reputed to know more songs than anyone, he never fails to substantiate his myth when heard in person."
"I don't think I've ever met a man more widely and genuinely respected among folksingers.... As a performing interpreter of the music Joe has always been a widely recognized instrument of grace.
"A Johnny Appleseed of songs, Joe represents folklore scholarship at its most worthy and humanistic of purposes: that of compiling the home-grown cultural expressions of our people and giving them back to a still living and viable community that cherishes them."
"Of all the entertainers who currently perform at the Ark, Joe Hickerson is one of the few people I truly enjoy.... Everything about [him] blends so well with his songs that by the end of the first set Hickerson, his music and his audience are united. I urge you to go hear him.
"Joe Hickerson (FSI-39) is my favorite Folk-Legacy record, which is saying a lot. I've waited years for an excuse to rave about this wonderful album. Every song is great. If you want a fine, completely enjoyable album by a great singer, don't overlook Joe Hickerson."
"There can be no question that Joe Hickerson, who knows where everything is, is the treasurer of the national folk archive [at the Library of Congress] and its chief treasure."
"You really are an 'American Treasure' - you've given so much to those of us who love the music, both in the material and in your terrific presentation of it."
"There's no way to tell how very much I appreciate & cherish this man."
"Joe is an absolute treasure chest of American music and lore."
"When it comes to folk music Joe Hickerson 'knows the most'."
"He could locate anything."
"Joe Hickerson's ability to find great tunes and songs has not been equalled."
"His contributions to the American Folklife Center and the Library of Congress have been so sustained and profound that he has become an institution in his own right."
"You have been a solid source of valuable information throughout your long career and you are almost single-handedly responsible for the outstanding reputation that the Archive now enjoys in the world of folklorists and beyond."
[Upon meeting Joe at the Library of Congress] "I was so pleased that I made sure, when I wrote the first volume of the Songkiller Saga in which the devils of the world are trying to eradicate folk music, to have them bump off Joe as well as blow up the library. Most of the really good important people in folk music get bumped off in the first volume."
"Thanks for all your good works."
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