Got a nice surprise in the mail today. I received a wonderful Christmas card from my friends Dave Para and Cathy Barton, out in Boonville, Missouri. They are wonderful musicians, and even better people. They just released a new CD titled Sabbath Home, which they included with their card. They've recorded another of my songs, Poppa Was A Preacher. They've also recorded Handful of Songs, and Living on the River, and sang harmony on Handful Of Songs on my CD.
They are great keepers of the tradition, and run the Big Muddy Festival in Boonville, which is one of my favorite small folk festivals. Jest plain folks are the primary audience, and when you walk down the streets of Boonville, or walk into a store, it seems like everyone you meet was at the festival the night before.

I haven't had a chance to listen to the CD yet, as I've been excavating the layers of stuff that had been "temporarily" stuck in our garage for the last five years.

I shoulda ben a archeologist.

Jerry