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

'Outside Llewyn Davis' - my take on Greenwich Village in 1961 aired on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles. The entire show may be heard by clicking here and going to our Roots Radio Page... 

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 honored 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

 Still here in 'My Book'(Silly Minstrel tales from the distant past),
Terror At 3000 Feet
Barry&Artie's Magnificent Adventure
Art and Paul and the true origins of Puff The Slippery Dragon..
and of course, the ultimate folk music soap opera will continue..
2005- New Christy Minstrel Resurrection - Chapter 1 - They're ba-ack!

I've been asked to continue writing these episodes and I continue to scheme them up. They are currently all being woven into my new show.

"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