Hello! A few days ago I posted a request for some help deciphering lyrics from an old recording of a City Built of Mansions. I appreciate the gracious help I got but then realized that a more polite way to proceed would have been to introduce myself first. So if you will forgive me for doing things backwards:

My name is Carol and I play in several bands in the Chicago area. One of them is called The Grass Stains. We are eclectic but we have a bluegrass banjo player among us so we wanted to express the idea that we were "tainted" with bluegrass....I also play whistle and flute in an Irish band called The Rough Edge.

The Blackest Dirt, a song I wrote recently to commemorate the centennial of a pogrom in Bialystok (then Russia, now Poland) and recorded with The Grass Stains was recently played on the Chicago version of The Midnight Special. You can hear the song here. And here's a clip from The Rough Edge before our fiddler joined us.

Thanks again for the help. Looking forward to participating in the forum.

Carol