Not long ago, this guy showed up at one of our antique car meets. He came in a modern car so I invited him to ride with us. We fell to talking and he told me his name was Rick Parker, a professional cartoonist. He said he worked for the people who did the Spiderman comics. He did not draw Spiderman, but he did the background characters, the evil ones. We discussed Maine humor and folk music, and he asked for one of my CDs, and thought he would like to swap one of his drawings for it. I had to wonder if he was full of it, but I gave him a CD, and today he gave me a color drawing of Gid Tanner of the old time band, Gid Tanner and the Georgia skillet lickers. It looks just like Gid Tanner, not a caricature.

He said he likes my CD so much he wants to do a drawing of me. My modesty kicked in and I started to withdraw, but then I thought, HELL YES!
He said I sound like a combination of Johnnie Cash and Pete Seeger!

Talk about being in the right place at the right time!