Didn't some folks think that the sermon on the mount contained the phrase "Blessed are the cheesemakers"? Forgive me but everytime I think of the film "The Life Of Brian" I break out in smiles that often last all day.

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention in this thread that both Sandy Paton and I think that the Rev. Alfred Karnes' "Called to the Foreign Field" may be the greatest recorded folk performance either of us has ever heard.

One night in the Paton's jet black living room, I played that recording at least twenty times in a row. The message (about converting the "Heathen" in Africa) is hardly one I'd countenance, but the overall effect of the recording is simply staggering. I simply can't explain my attraction to it.

What does come to mind though, is that I probably feel the same way a born again Christian would, when I can actually get someone else to listen to that record. In a way, I feel I've made a convert. Realisticly I know that to most people (and probably most on Mudcat) it would just sound like a scratchy old country song...but to me, it's part of what has made my life worth living.

Rick