Wow! What an amazing number of beautiful memories. I am not nearly 70, but I did grow up along the Rock River in Rockford, IL. And, in that town was a folk club/veggie restaurant in a great big ol' synagogue run by my parents from 1972 until 1989...or thereabouts. I was 5yrs old when the folk music started coming into every waking moment of my life. Tom Paxton, Steve Goodman, Jim Post, Michael Johnsen, Mark Henley and Dick Pinney, Robin & Linda Williams, Mike Jordan, Rielly and Maloney, Mason Daring and Jeanie Stahl, Micheal and Barbara Smith, GAmble Rogers, Bob Gibson, Tom Dundee, Jean Richie, Utah Phillips and Rosalie Sorellis, Caludia Schmidt, Silly Wizard, Murry McGLauchlan... were my lifelines. I remember the transition from an alternative elementary/middle school to highschool and not really knowing what everybody was talking about: AC/DC, Styx, Journey, top 40 stuff. I wandered around the different "clicks" and found Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell, Simon & Garfunkle, Grateful Dead, CSN, with very few years going arry (sp?). Which is to say that the whole era has been my religion, every album is so important that I can still sing the lyrics through by heart. I feel blessed amidst the gospels of that time, activists songs, enlightened songwriters, priceless upbringing. I am in dire need to provide now for my kids (ages 11 & 13) a permanent, unmoving foundation with which to gauge this crazy world by.