I'm just so glad to have found this site. I think Bartholemew pointed out that we get here in different ways. For me I always knew that the type of pop music to which I was drawn--PPM, Paul Simon, JT, Jim Croce, had to be coming from a common "SOUL" that I just wasn't privy to and didn't know where to go looking. I heard a folk radio program on the radio one night (didn't even know where the signal was from) playing a Kate Wolf song. I had to have that, and the next, and the next--each artist I was drawn to more "roots" than the previous and I feel like I'm getting closer to the soul the music so full of integrity that you can't tell where the need to make the music starts and the performance begins. And never has my own playing been more rewarding.

Thanks for the thread--sorry for the rambling

John