Sorry to go off on a tangent here Peter, but it's on my mind, and I have very little, so it's important to clear the BS out someimes.

I remember it had happened two days before I heard. I don't know what I was doing, just missed it I guess. There had been yet another plane crash and more musicians bought the farm. We've had so many discusions around here about what is folk and traditional or folklike or pop or whatever that today, this event keeps coming to mind. No, I guess they weren't folkies, but the background and the musical interests all stemmed from the folk revival of the sixties, and the earliest stuff, that no one ever heard, was certainly folk-like. Record companies considered the music non-commercial and unclassifiable. Word was that since some commercial success had come from "B" cuts (you never know), there was going to be an album cut with a mix of new and some traditionals with a twist...and much less "production." It's too bad it didn't happen and we're left with nothing but mainly the "pop" stuff. I still listen to the early songs and think what might have been. One very prolific songwriter and one skilled and tasteful guitarist, Jim Croce and Maury Muehleisen, both dead after a crash in Louisiana. 26 years ago last Monday...........Gawd I hate getting old...seems like yesterday.

Now go on back to the cops looking for the Waylon Heron in the park. Sorry.

Spaw