For the past year or so Nancy & I have been putting on concerts using the local church, and quite naturally I've booked as many of my favorites as I could. This was a real thrill for me to have my folk heroes and heroines in my town to present to my people and to be able to sing with them. And as this thread has so aptly shown a few of them didn't quite measure up to what I thought they would be. One or two were in fact real butt holes. Initiallly I was kinda crushed, but after introducing them, I would go back of the stage and get the snacks set up. Then I would go behind the altar, where they performed, and I could see all the faces of the audiences from infants to 70 & 80 year olds. Watching their faces, the joy and tears and smiles that this performer brought out of them, made me feel like a jerk. What I mean is I want not to judge them as to their whims and weaknesses and whatevers, but what they so beautifully share with mypeople. I feel better about each one now, as each concert goes by. Oh well I do bare my soul(sole) now & then.........