Well hello, Rick Fielding here..having just pushed Sandy out of his comfortable Mudcat perch. I swore that I would wait until the tour is over and I was back in Toronto before diving back onto the "cat", but Holy Cow, what's a boy to do when threads like this (and about a dozen others) come up and pull me towards the computer. I feel like Ulysses when he heard those dangerous gal folksingers calling him to that island.

For me, a great album is one that I bought years ago and still listen to on a regular basis. Can't narrow it down to a single one, but here are some VERY important collections of music to me.

"Leadbelly's Last Sessions" on Folkways. "Horton Barker", also on Folkways.(recorded by my host this week, S.P.) "Flatt and Scruggs at Carnegie Hall", on Columbia. "Fred Gerlach", Folkways again. "Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger..Broadside", ditto Folkways. and finally (for now) "Obray Ramsay sings folksongs from the three laurels", on Prestige Folklore.....Geez! better let Sandy have his chair back!

Rick