I was hanging out backstage with Sonny & Brownie McGhee at one of their gigs, it must've been in 1971 in Berkeley, California. I was busking on Telegraph Avenue and down on Fisherman's Wharf and on Market Street across the bay. I guess I had just tried to buy a new harp that afternoon, because I had blown one out trying to be heard above traffic noise. I had known them for a couple of years. My first professional gig was opening for them at Gerde's Folk City in 1967. Mike Porco paid me 5 bucks and a sandwich per night. Ah, the good old days!

Mark Ross