Here's what I told Max in a Jan 5 letter:

Enclosed are 2 copies of our band's new (first) CD: ShoreGrass In Connecticut. I did all the graphics and in fact burned and packaged all the CDs myself, thus no shrink-wrap. Use all proceeds however you want, and good luck!

If any Mudcatter wants a copy beyond these 2, I'll sell them for $15 each through Mudcat or directly by emailing B.Shaw@snet.net (as it says on the CD) or Barbara.Shaw@snet.net and I'll donate $5 of each sale to the Mudcat. If you'd like to put this on your website somewhere, go ahead. I'm not sure how successful my donation may be to you, since we're pretty new and very unknown and probably not all that wonderful, but it's an attempt to help.

Here's the ShoreGrass "official biography":

Barbara plays guitar and is the primary songwriter of the group. She is a retired telephone company information technology project manager. Her husband Frank plays banjo, and is a manufacturing engineer and branch manager. He was bass player and lead vocalist in the 70's Folk / Rock band Clean Living, which recorded two albums on the Vanguard label. Paul Pozzi plays mandolin and is an architect. Larry Rothermel is director of the strings program at the local intermediate school, and also plays violin with the New Haven Civic Orchestra and trumpet with the high school pit orchestra. Louis Audette, bassist, is currently a remote control aerial photographer, having retired from previous careers as instructor, lecturer, entrepreneur and bass player with the Greenbriar Boys and the Gray Sky Boys.

ShoreGrass is pleased to present their first CD "In Connecticut." It was recorded at American Melody Studio in Guilford, CT with nationally renowned bluegrass musician Phil Rosenthal (former guitarist and lead singer of Seldom Scene) doing the engineering and mixing. The songs reflect their strong roots in traditional acoustic music as well as their affection for New England, especially the debut of the new "Connecticut Waltz," and "I Can't Go Home," which comments on changes in hometown Branford, CT.

I'll need to add $2 onto each one for postage and a mailer, or else donate $3 for each one to Mudcat. And I'd better start making more copies, if anyone is interested! (Who says retirees have nothing to do . . .)

Funny side-note: Paul, our mandolin player, wanted to know how much I paid Mike Miller to leave him off the review!