Yeah, actually, I've spent some time at the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC and at NC Folklore Society meetings over the years. That's why I'm here at all; my mother was a folklore scholar who brought some archives here and endowed a fellowship in ballad scholarship. So it happens that I know the academic folklorists around here better than the musicians, though I have attended some nice sessions among the former.

Charley, were you with me the night we went to the party at Bascom Lamar Lunsford's house? Tommy Hunter and Obray were 2/3 of the stringband that night; I don't know who played the guitar. Course I didn't even know whose party it was until 35 years later.