When someone records the "Best of the Mudcat Threads" this one's at the top of the pile! Thanks to all of you for the wonderful stories and personal memories. Being a So. Cal. kid, and a child of the "folk boom" years, I've only read about this stuff- never got it straight from the "horse's mouth". My only connection in this crowd is that I took "American Folk Music" at Cal State Northridge from an amazing lady named Bess Hawes. I fell in love with her, and the stuff she taught truly changed my musical life. Soppin' it up here, Boss!!