The History Club is a group of readers and raconteurs. They love Page Smith's multi-volume history of the United States, and gather from time to time to loosen up and spin tales about America from their varied and personal points of view.

As club secretary, Diesel Cats presents here the minutes of one such meeting.

Diesel Cats was an amateur recording artist working out of his bedroom studio in the San Francisco Bay Area. He recorded eight albums between 1975 and 1993 using 4-track and 8-track tape recorders. History Club Minutes, his fifth, was praised by Page Smith and is very well liked by at least three other people.  Check out album four, album six, and album eight online.

All songs and lyrics copyright 1989 Dennis Criteser except italicized lines in Walt Whitman Suite, which are the words of Walt Whitman.  All rights reserved.

All illustrations copyright 1989 Joan Landsberg. 

Diesel Cats - lead vocals and "drums" on all songs, keyboards on all except where noted.

Very special thanks to Steve Kirk for mastering and transfer to digital files from DAT copies of the original analog masters.