Great Idea for a Thread--

My dad, mother, and two of my aunts got me into folk music while I was too young to know better...I got addicted at a very young age. My dad was playing harmonica all over the place; songs like the Irish Washerwoman and Nellie Gray and Scotland the Brave. In his spare time, he would make up lullabies for me. My mother, meanwhile, was teaching me to play the "hi fi" with "LPs" of Baez, Dylan, PPM, Kingston Trio, Leadbelly, Odetta, New Lost City Ramblers, Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, Tom Lehrer, and who knows who else I've forgotten. Then there are the two aunts. They played guitars and sang songs from Woody Guthrie, the Carters, and the Weavers. I was always trying to get my friends to play "hootenanny" which, since I was too shy to sing in front of them, and they didn't know any of the songs, was always a failure!

I've since met up with the music Bonnie Raitt, Kris Kristofferson, Phil Ochs, John Prine, and a bazillion others. I'm hopelessly hooked. I enjoy r'n'r, and r'n'b, and c/w, and classical...but folk is the music of my heart.

V