The first songs l learned to play were KT songs, and, to a great degree, their eclecticism and sense of fun shaped my ideas about what "folksinging" was--It is fashionable in some circles to say that they weren't truly playing "folk" music, but their spontaneity, their informal style, the congeniality, and the sense of singing for the sake of the song, are really the essence of what folk music is.

When my wife told me, "Nick Reynolds died." The thing that came into my mind was the sound of his voice--as familiar, after all these years,as the voice of a favorite cousin.