Just to keep the record straight, Bob Hitchcock and I have had a roots rock band, the Vibrocats, for a number of years now, playing in the DC area. Previously he was with The New St. George.

The Boarding Party's depth of research was equaled by their strong voices and well crafted harmonys and arrangements. They simply had the power to lift up an audience. When Tom McHenry sang Slow Shiloh if you didn't feel the deep sadness, well you weren't alive.

They were nights at Grant's Tomb (an open mike Charley Bryant and I ran in DC) in the early days where tears of joy filled every eye when they sang.

And then they would be followed by Reuben Musgrave and Mary Chapin Carpenter and Helen Schneyer and many others.
But I wax nostalgic.
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