A wonderful recording by Jim Ringer on Folk-Legacy contains the song Dreary Black Hills. In the notes that accompany the recording, now on cd, it says that Jim learned the song from Merritt Herring. If you don't have this cd you are missing a great one.

I have never had the pleasure of meeting Merritt, being on the east coast and all, but from all written above I sure wish I could have. I'd love to hear the cd's. Hope someone posts here a way to get them.

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