Very nice, Bill. I wish you and Tommy had recorded that aession. I can almost hear what the 2 banjo styles might've sounded like improvising and meshing. I think I first heard you and the family in Winfield at the festival. That was where Tommy and I shared a pint of Scotch out of a paper bag walking around the festival grounds one night. Tommy's daughter, Jessie Eustace, asked a longish while ago, in Sing Out magazine, for his old music pals to write to Tommy with remembrances of things done along the way. She thought it might bring some lost memories back to him. I did write to Tommy at the nursing home telling him about my memories of that night-----how we were both amazed by Clair Lynch's voice. Jesse found that letter at the home. It had been saved so Tommy could re-read it and hold onto those times. Sadly, it made me think of the lines in his song "Twisted Laurel" about the fellow trying to "call memories back". ---- I'm misting up right now thinking back on it.

I do hope you and the family are well.

Art Thieme