Ya know? that's true. People do like to hear 'the music'. I sang in church the other day and our little congregation actually applauded! I was stunned and pleased. I sang a song called Hallelujah Side which is one of my ideas of what folk music sometimes is and I sang it because it is what is happening to me and has become important in my life and I was so pleased to be allowed to sing it that all the other stuff was gravy. Folk music is alive and well and changing and shifting and resonating to a fair-thee-well here in Franklin County, Missouri. Folk music is what people like when they're sitting on the porch or in the kitchen or around a campfire. We have a winter camp this week-end and there will be music from Friday til Sunday almost without halt. It will be in the camps and in the old store around the wood stove and down at the bread ovens and in every heart and on all lips and that sure seems as though it is alive, now don't it?

CB