Richard Beattie

In two or three storage units in Denver, stacked in cardboard boxes were reel to reel tapes of a treasury of Folk Heroes. Standing in the concrete archives at Broadway and Evans, not far away from where Barry Fey started The Family Dog, was a Smithsonian-like Library with founder and collector, Harry Tuft looking through with Richard Arnold Beattie, the singer-songwriter and founder of Sound Century an organization that digitizes and remixes these types of things, so future generations can get “Folke’d up” as much as Richard is! Beattie is a media host, publisher and has been writing, telling, singing and playing stories and songs since 1972. Your mission is to enjoy the time machine to back where Folk Heroes roamed the earth.