First time I saw Joan Baez on the TV, maybe '59 - singing "Virgin Mary Had a One Son." I was in love with her until I met my present wife...

Sometime in the mid-sixties, sitting in the front row at the Club 47 in Cambridge. Doc Watson was playing, solo. My face was about 6 feet directly in front of his picking hand. He was singing "Brown's Ferry Blues," and played a break. I forgot what good hearing blind people develop, and muttered "That can't be done!" He just said, "Yes, it can!" and played the same break again.

Tom Russell and Andrew Hardin, at the Mirage Hotel, in Castleford, Yorkshire, October '01. Dennis, the owner, does a lot of Tom's stuff himself, so the whole crowd knew a lot of the songs, and sang like fools. That doesn't happen in the US. There were probably more people in that room who knew the lyrics to a lot of Tom's stuff than in the entire US.

Old Songs '02, when Kris and I had a slightly delayed 35th anniversary party one afternoon. Some of you were there. We had a good quantity of Champagne. An old hippy wandered in, and I spoke to him. Mike Agranoff, at my request, did the whole "Ballad of Jake and Ten Ton Mollie" on the spot. I hadn't heard it for many years; but my kids never had, and were some amazed.

Probably think of more later.

Peter.