Who do I love? Perinneals like Etta, Ella, BB, Bill Monroe, Clancys, Waterson:Carthy, Nic Jones, Patsy Cline and Hank Williams always set a spark. Latest loves include a lot of homegrown local northwest stuff like Janis Carper (gravel voiced goddess), Heidi Muller, Dan Maher, Brian Bowers (cheers emily, he IS a great big chunk of sugar!) Steve and Shelly Hines, and Kate Rusby. Forever Loves: flannel, warm chocolate chip cookies, my brainless dog, Lancelot Link (hey Marta), British comedies on late night PBS, the Jungle Book soundtrack, my English grandmother shaking her fanny to Harry Belafonte, my Scottish grandmother still believing that Aerosmith is one guy named Harold Smith (he's just REALLY REALLY GOOD), catching a glimpse of Orion on a cloudless night, friends singing goofy songs on my answering machine, creatures (human or otherwise) that come to me broken and leave me whole, the homeless guy that writes me sonnets in exchange for my cutting his hair, and curling up with a blanket, cat covering my feet, with a glass of good wine and a book to be lost in. That's where I'm headed! Later, Elle