Frenchy Burrito was raised in Chicago, the son of a naval aviator. One of his first heroes was Clarence Darrow, the great Chicago Defense lawyer; another was folk hero and notorious bank robber John Dillinger. Realizing that law school wasn’t in the cards (and neither was bank robbing) he got a guitar and turned his sights to songwriting instead, and wrote a song about the fabled outlaw, called The Ballad of John Dillinger. “To me John Dillinger was more like Robin Hood than a criminal”, says Frenchy. His first gig, at a place called The No Exit Café (a perfect existential beginning) started him down his lifetime path of musical exploits. A lucky break came when a high school classmate invited Frenchy to a recording session at Chess Records. He was just an observer but the experience had a lasting affect. Quickly coming to the conclusion that John Prine and Steve Goodman had the folk scene sewed up in Chicago, Frenchy migrated to Pittsburgh in hot pursui...
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