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"Papa Joe" Kretschmer (@papajoe)

progress: 4

joined: January 29 2007
location: Ohio, USA
website: papajoemusic.com
influences: John Prine, Tom Russell, Kate Wolf, Tom Paxton, Bill Staines, Greg Brown, Dave Carter, Tom Lehrer

Bio

This is the perfect prep activity for my annual WinterSongs songwriting camp in the Catskill Mountains of New York--Feb. 17-20 this year.

I'm a retired college prof and computer programmer, who started playing out in my mid-fifties. I play guitar, banjo and harmonica--none of them very well, but I have fun. I guess you'd call my songs "folk" or "Americana. I tend to emulate folks like John Prine, Bill Staines, Tom Paxton and Tom Lehrer. I have one CD of originals, and some day I'll crank out another. While I do have some paying gigs each year, I really do this strictly for fun.

2012 Songs

1	A Little Slice O' Nice	11 comments // 3 months ago
2	Inspiration and Laundry	6 comments // 3 months ago
3	Growin' Old is So Much Fun	10 comments // 3 months ago
4	1959	6 comments // 3 months ago

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smiley 2 months ago

Thanks for the congrats. You do have some keepers and I am in line for that new cd when it comes out...
snoozin 2 months ago

Thanks Papa Joe....looks like WS was tons of fun!...hope to get there one of these years!
snoozin 3 months ago

Thanks for the feedback, Papa Joe....I get some good ideas 'in the can' sometimes too....LOL
papajoe 3 months ago

Been rather busy the last two days, but I've got some ideas and am gonna try and get another one "in the can" Monday or Tuesday...
snoozin 3 months ago

Great to see ya Papa Joe!!!!
max 4 months ago

Here's hoping you'll have a fab Feb.