Welcome back Art!

we had a great time today, at the Lifetime achievement awards, which included tributes to some luminaries I really appreciated, like Honeyboy Williams, Leonard Cohen and Loretta Lynn. There was even a tribute to Thomas Edison, and it doesn't get any more luminary than that!

The nominee reception was great fun. Photos from today are forthcoming (some are already up for those on Facebook, including two on my public page. You can access these even if you don't do Facebook. No cameras allowed at the Staples Center, so pictures on the red carpet will be cell phone pics, and then all cameras off for the ceremony. Sorry guys.

It's great hanging out with Jacqui, Brendan, Cathy Fink an d Marcy Marxer, and Charlie Pilzer, among many others. And we're thinking about all the folks who deserve to be here, who made this album work with their love and their time and their talent. I'm especially thinking of Jean Ritchie, since reading the update on her gradual recovery. And Kendall, whose recovery is also too slow, but he was asking for it.

Dan