Hey, Jimmy:

Funny thing is, I'd rather hear your group doing Kingston Trio songs than I would a group of people who were never really a part of the Kingston Trio using the brand name. Then, I'd just find enjoyment in your enthusiasm and accept the music for what it was. I know that your group is not pretending to be the Kingston Trio, or the Highwaymen, or the Weavers. You're just singing the old pop versions of folk songs because you enjoy doing it.

I can dig enjoyment.

(I opened for the Highwaymen at the Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village in the early 60's, by the way.) It wasn't the most brilliant booking decision, as I was trying to sound like a scratchy, tinny old 78 rpm recordning of some old toothless geezer sitting on the back porch of a tumble down shack in the Southern Appalachians. As determinedly authentic as I could fake.

Jerry