It was just a little over 13 years ago I took Rick Fielding's advice to me and gave up the day job.

Rick and I were doing a workshop together at the FSGW Getaway in Maryland, when he took me aside prior to the session and said, "What are you wasting your time in that business world for? You've got the chops, you've got the love for it. Get out there and do it!"

I've been working, often "heads down" at it ever since. Gave up a lotta income, but I'm above water and I sure as hell love what I do for a living. So Thank you Rick Fielding and God Bless your memory!

All of this is by long way of introduction to this video clip. I will post other clips as they become available. The film from which it comes will be out next week.

But the short story is, it was one fortunate event after another, beginning with Rick's advice to me that gave me this opportunity; to write and produce the soundtrack for this film. The movie stars Buck Taylor (from Gunsmoke and scores of movies) and Michael Martin Murphey (Wildfire, Carolina in the PInes and loads of others) and it will play on PBS in 2014 (after a run of independent theaters). I prodcued 16 tracks for the film, including two with Murphey ... and as I began to post the link here, I realized that for me, it all started with Mudcat and good advice from my friend, Rick Fielding.

I hope y'all take a look and listen to the Youtube clip and I hope I can post a few more clips, once they become available.