Ranger Steve, Brag on!! You've paid your dues! Glad to post you back to the top where you belong. Glad to have stumbled upon your post. Get ready to swell again. IMO you are the premium talent on the "Heartless Haywire" show. I muchly enjoyed backing you up several tymes on the show in addition to my own acts. Talent such as yours is a pleasure to work with. Wish you had come aboard earlier. I was on every broadcast for the first 52 weeks and had the same experience you describe. The 104 CD's Rich burned for me of those first shows include to few of your presentations. As you experienced I was contacted via ICQ by fans from Oz and other foreign continents. We traded web audio of our songs for several months. Hard to imagine but if you listen to the shows on Serbia Bluegrass radio they hang on every note we play and translate it very well. As I have immersed myself in a new music scene and having relocated can no longer receive the live 89.7 FM transmission but anyway no longer care to hear the continued demise of the HH talent base. Everyone on those early shows worked so hard and gave up so much of their personal life and tyme to present a quality show and initially get it off the ground. As you must know many of the better original "star" performers were cast aside for lesser talents by the powers that are as the show continued on. Several performers left the show rather than be associated with the talent demise. I remained only to allow the Karo Sisters continue together. Again IMO you are one of the very few excellent talents that remain on the show keeping the dream alive. Keep up the good work. You more than deserve all the acclaim you have generated. Myself and some others I remain in contact with are relieved to have put those two hour Saturday night shows behind us. Therefore at this late date I can also say that a view from "the far side" is also enjoyable in that many of the live audience ceased attending the show when I stopped performing... believe me that feels as good as you say as well. I miss you much! Hi to Joe A, Charlie P, Mike T, Beth C, Rich E, etc. :) doc