Bob Franke and Bill Staines at the me & thee coffeehouse

Bob Franke: By Scott Alarik, November 2009 "I always think of Bob Franke as if Emerson and Thoreau had picked up acoustic guitars and gotten into songwriting." Tom Paxton, songwriter "Bob Franke writes the kind of songs that will still be sung a hundred years from now." Christine Lavin, songwriter "I believe that [Bob Franke's] 'Hard Love' is one of the best songs written between 1950 and 2000 - and that includes Dylan and Joni." Bill Staines: "Any new song that can live comfortably beside the well-worn songs of folk tradition has a good chance of surviving the test of time. Such, we believe, are the songs of Bill Staines" -- Charles "Sandy" Paton, Folk Legacy Records