"Now Is the Cool of the Day," June 15, 2000: I'd heard Jean Ritchie sing it before, but not with the poignancy she did that night at the Hindman Settlement School. She told how a proposed new road will tear away half the yard from her cabin in Vico (you may have seen the place in the opening scenes of Bill Moyer's "Amazing Grace" or on "High Hills and Mountains" album cover) and that drove home the meaning of this eco-anthem.
"Credo," June 21, 2000: Hayseed doesn't get played much in New England (not that we're snobby or provincial or inclined to prejudge somebody by a rubish name or anything like that). I'm pretty sure I'll always know where I was -- northbound on Kentucky Route 15 -- the first time I heard him singing this, with Lucinda Williams harmonizing.