Hi, Naemanson and Rick Fielding. I was also tuned in to NPR. I had lost track of Stan Rogers' identity. A good friend of mine, Avery Johnson, of Milford, NH, once played the album with the Mary Ellen Carter song, as Avery's way of telling me that he often felt no need to go out to hear music, when he could bring that sort of music into his house on records -- that was before CDs took over recording. Avery died about twelve years ago, and one of the strong links to my memory of him has been the sound of that song. When I turned on the radio and heard Stan Rogers' voice, I knew the voice immediately as the one Avery had loved, even on an unfamiliar song and before they had said his name. Now I know who he is and how to find that album, and along the way, how relive a bit of an evening with Avery.

Joe