Sringsinger writes:

"There were some of us who knew Woody before he succumbed to Huntington's, singing and playing in tune and on pitch, with clarity and brevity. I had the honor of his calling me one of his pickin' buddies.

Most of his imitators copied the way he sang after he was disabled with his crippling disease."

Frank,

I was under the impression that your encounters with Woody date from around 1953 or 54 in California; from Woody's last great trip west before his hospitalization. A time when he was already well in the grip of his Huntington's disease.