I hear you...thanks for your suggestions...I'll check them out. You're right, of course as far as sound quality.. I have a friend who is appalled at the quality of a vast majority of my recordings.. His opinion must be "if it's not digital, it's not worth hearing...!" I don't agree.

I have another friend who's opinion is more closely linked to mine. He says that when an artist gets "slick", he loses most of the creativity he had in the early days.. He uses Kenny Rogers as an example.... He says if you listen to his early songs with the old groups he performed with and earlier, you hear some very interesting and creative music that he made. After he found the "pattern" & became "slick" though, songs like Lucille & The Gambler are good, they all sound alike... and he lost that very creative spirit he had in the beginning.. Am I right?...

I'm glad to say, I've never actually heard a Ledbetter recording where I got that feeling.