Ah yes, Kieth Dempster's farm. Kieth is the owner of a popular restaurant and folk club in Iowa City. Kieth still provides a venue for all kinds of well known musicians who are passing through the area.

Bob and his wife Kristie play all over and have just released their own CD, Iowa Songscape. Bob also plays as a member of other groups and has toured as a member of many popular bands including Rhonda Vincent.

For detailed information on Bob & Kristie Black click the link and check out their Web site. Bob has appeared on more than twenty different albums either as a featured performer or as a sideman. He recorded with Monroe in the seventies as a Blue Grass Boy and recorded his first solo album, Ladies on the Steamboat. Recordings can be ordered through his Web site or through commercial channels including Camsco and Sandy Paton.

The Banjoy Web site also features tablature for the five-string banjo that Bob has personally prepared. Banjo players should find this a growing resource.

Here are a few links to MP3 files Bob & Kristie have on their site. There are more tracks there but these are just a few I thought might be interesting to folks in this thread.

• Gilbert Street from Bob's Banjoy album.
• Oklahoma Redbird from the Cagley, Black, Schaefer, & Njoes album called Hot Pickin' & Cool Tunes
• Blood on the Moon from Bob & Kristie Black's new Iowa Songscape CD
• In the Night (a Romany Lament) also from Bob & Kristie's Iowa Songscape CD. Here Bob is playing a resophonic banjo made for him by luthier Roger Anderson of Marengo, Iowa.

      - Mark