A personal web site dedicated to those of us for whom the music is enough.

"I thought I was watching and listening to Will Rogers with an Ivy League education and maybe that's true, but your humor and songs - both touching and delightful - was better and much more enjoyable than his lasso"
-Herb Freed, Film-maker, novelist and friend 

Podcast of this show can now be heard.

Click Here 

 'The Music of Laurel Canyon'

(Click on the link above for details)

My new CD, 'From the Village to the Canyon' is being featured in the Grammy Museum Gift Shop for the length of the exhibition. I've personally signed 100 copies for the event, and I appeared on the panel at the opening event on May 9th.

Press Release here

My CD is now live on CD Baby, Amazon and Itunes. If you would like a signed copy, please email me and purchase it from this web site. I'd be happy to do this for you.

Just click here.

 Want to test the merchandise first? Click here for samples

Want to read some reviews? Click here. 

 The Complete Art and Paul CD

Is now available
For those of you who remember...

I have finally assembled a CD which contains all of the recordings made by Art and Paul (that's Podell and Potash - 'Feelin' Groovy' is not one of the tracks).. Details will follow within a week. Please check this site.

*(funds will be held in trust until all interested parties, publishers, composers, etc. are notified and compensated or until there's a knock on the door)

My show.

'A Folksinger's Diary' (a show based on true life stories...well...er..)

Stories, Shameless Fabrications and Ramblings

contact here for booking information

 'My Book'

Well, I've finally been talked into finishing this series up. So...I've begun to assemble, write, edit a series of chapters chronicling the life and times of a folk-singer starting from my early days in Greenwich Village (1955 - can you believe it?) through my experiences coming to California, Art and Paul, The New Christy Minstrels and the little stuff that happened along the way that I had no idea were part of history. I'll keep y'all posted on progress. I need some encouragement, so if you want to drop me a line and encourage me, please do so. I also encourage folks to wait until it's published before you contact your lawyers. Nuff said... back to the study.... Art

For a few samples in no particular chronological order, go here and find your way. I promise that once it's done, it will be more organized.

"Sometimes I wake up
in the strangest places, and I wonder where I've been.
And in the time
between the time
between the time
between the time...
the gypsy sings again."
...from 'Golden Apples of The Sun' by Barry Kane and Art Podell

"My biggest fear is that
they will find out that I would write songs even
if they didn't pay me"
... Jack Murphy, songwriter

"You're asking me if I've experimented with marijuana? Cripes dad, next thing you'll be asking me to play folk-music!"
...my son David at age 16

This site was launched August 2010 as my personal 'log'. It contains music (some mine), photos, thoughts, reflections, history, events, links to friends' sites and things of interest to me. Maybe to you also.  

I update frequently, tweak things here and there constantly. If you would like to contact me, please do so. I'm friendly enough for the most part. 

My contact information is on the last page but if you are lazy...click 

Thanks ... Art