Whoa - a sad day indeed. My wife let me know today that she heard about Nick's passing on NPR this morning - a sad day. The Kingston Trio may have been, to some, not "true" folk singers, whatever that may be, but like so many other boomers, they got my attention, sucked me in and caused me to look in new directions; sort of the way that "Riverdance" introduced me to Irish music.

I told this anectdote a while back when posting as "Texas Guest," but it's worth repeating: in the sixth grade at St. Bridgid's Catholic Grade School in Detroit, Michigan, I had a teacher by the name of Frank Strunk; and, it was during that year that an edict came down from the nunnery that the students were to be exposed to
"classical" music for a period of time on Friday afternoons.
Mr. Strunk said he could not fight the rule but he would give us a balance of culture - and he did - we got twenty minutes of Bhrams, Bach and Beethoven as the nuns demanded, then we got twenty minutes of the Kingston Trio. Here's to Mr. Strunk, to Nick Reynolds and the Kingston Trio - may you live forever, though you'll never return. Cheers,..........mwh