Rick, your description of those situations is great. I can just see them fuming at each other.

Do you have the answer to who first crosspicked on a Stanley's record? I have recordings of Napier with them in the late fifties but I think all the Shuffler leads in my collection are later than that.

I once attended the Berryville festival (1973 or 4) and had a great time but Moody wasn't there. I did get to talk with him very briefly at a festival James Monroe put together just east of Knoxville, Tn. No meaningful conversation though.

I think I may yet have a tape I made of concerts at that festival and I think Moody is included. I used ask Monroe (Bill or James) if I could tap into their sound systems at festivals to make personal tapes. To my total amazement, they always said yes. Though I recall at James' festival, Lester Flatt noticed that I was taping and would not walk onto the stage until he had been assured that I had turned of my machine. I understood his concern of course and promptly complied.

      - Mark