Rick, I remember the blind guitar players and singers who used to be prominent where I grew up near Asheville, N.C

This was during and shortly after the depression and many people such as the blind had no way to support themselves. The played and sang on the streets and some sold pencils or apples.

David Holt told me that Doc Watson did this when he was young. I often wonder if Doc was one of the pickers I saw on Patton Ave. or Lexington Ave. in Asheville?

People call them the "Good Old Days", and they did have some things I would like to preserve. Blind men playing on streets is not one of them.

Later, Jeep