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Cool new way to get Bob's CD's and to listen to snippets of songs. 

This is really cool use of technology.  Click on the Order CDs link on the menu to see Bob's new link to Nimbit, which handles sales of his recent music on CD.

Bob has a new Myspace page, which gives him another way to reach folks who want to know what he is up to these days.  The following is from Bob:

I've got a new MySpace site-- www.myspace.com/bobfrankespace.  So far, a few streaming songs, new dates, and comments, but I will keep working on things there.  I will investigate putting together a download store there and keep you all posted if it works out. Meanwhile, please visit and/or join the service. If you're a songwriter who wants to expand your web presence, I recommend you go to www.myspace.com/music and sign up there.

So now you have three ways to check up on Bob's activities (see menu links):

1.  This website

2.  The Song Journal, Bob's blog -- musings on a variety of subjects

3.  Bob's Myspace page, www.myspace.com/bobfrankespace

"Old, But Very Good News"	Also, "The Other Evening In Chicago" was on the best of 2005 lists of Susan Forbes Hansen of WFCR Radio in Amherst, MA; Mike Regenstreif of CKUT, Montreal; and Ron Olesko of WFUV Teaneck, NJ.
Bob's Songwriting Workshops -- click on menu link to workshops
See the article about Bob entitled "Bob Franke: Patience is a Virtue" in the Spring 2005 issue of Sing Out Magazine.

Bob's Blog:  The Song Journal

Bob's blog is called The Song Journal (http://www.songjournal.blogspot.com), and is a way for him to offer "miscellaneous news and writing by Bob Franke, mostly about songs as a portable art form, and the process of creating them and enabling them to do their work in the world."

In 2003, Kathy Mattea covered Bob's song "Straw Against the Chill" on her second Christmas album, "Joy For Christmas Day."

In the spring of 2004, Peter, Paul and Mary released "Alleluia, The Great Storm Is Over" on their CD "In These Times."

"It's his integrity. I always think of Bob as if Emerson and Thoreau had picked up acoustic guitars and gotten into songwriting. There's touches of Mark Twain and Buddy Holly in there, too."

Tom Paxton

Express, Berkeley, California

Larry Kelp, Express, Berkeley, CA

" . . . a singer-songwriter unsurpassed for his lyrical grace . . . one of our wisest and most spiritually graceful songwriters"

The Boston Globe, Boston, MA

"...a standard of songs that most writers can only dream about, and admire in drop-jawed silence"

Folk Roots