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 

MY NEW SONG!

Preview it here...

And here's my last one:

CLICK TO LISTEN

I've added a page with some of my recent songs. Pretty much raw and unadorned, recorded here at home. I'll keep adding to the collection as I write and record them. Writing is a passion and there are few pleasures that compare with finishing a new song. I hope you enjoy what you hear.... Just click the New Songs link to the right in order to listen...and oh yes, there are some New Videos too. Click the link to the right. 

And.... a musical video of an actual crime 

https://youtu.be/CGymGqQsvz0

And....I'm currently writing a regular column and an occasional CD review for the wonderful Folkworks.org Newsletter.  Check it out here

 'The Music of Laurel Canyon'

(Click on the link above for details)

My CD, 'From the Village to the Canyon' was featured in the Grammy Museum Gift Shop for the length of the exhibition and I was honored to be part of the onstage panel on opening night. 

Press Release here

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. 

 Radio DJ's and Programmers can download hi-res tracks of "From The Village to the Canyon" here

*(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)

Personal appearance information

'From The Village To The Canyon
A Folksinger's Journey'

(a show based on true life stories...well...er..)
 Stories, Incredible music, Shameless Fabrications and Ramblings

Visual projection can be included 

contact here for show and booking information

 'My Book'

Yet a work in progress.... what can I say?

Well, I'm being 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