It was a good gathering at the Press Room yesterday, a combination of sadness in recognition of Barry Finn no longer walking this earth but also a happier realization that we carry him and his songs within us.

I was asked to lead "Yangtse River Shanty" and I choose to do it in a way that was closer to how I put the song together than the way Barry reworked it in the shape of a more traditional shanty. I'm not sure I could have done Barry's version yesterday, even though I know it well!

There were folks there that I hadn't seen in years, all singing songs in tribute to Barry. They all did a great job!

I had no intention of leading "Lee Fore Brace" but that's what came out when I tried to lead "The Outside Track." I guess "someone" just wanted to hear the lines again:

So I'll drink me drink and sing me song,
And none will know but me,
That a lump of me heart went down with Dan
That night in the Cape Horn sea.

Charley Noble