I got my copy of Mountain Hearth and Home yesterday, along with McCurdy's Dalliance and Theodore Bikel's Yiddish compilation. These are three CD's I'll listen to over and over again. All three are extraordinary, everything you'd like to have in a folk music CD - full lyrics, fascinating background notes, interesting packaging. And the photographs in Jean's CD booklet are wonderful. I wish some of the photos were larger, especially the one of Jean's Upper Meadow. Jean's CD is a generous helping of music, too - 37 cuts.

There is lots of good folk music in the Elektra catalogue. I wonder what else they'll reissue.

-Joe Offer-