Thanks for all the friendly greetings, folks. I'm excited to start chatting with people on Mudcat. Pretty amazing site! I was lucky enough to discover Jerry's first album on Folk-Legacy (Was "Get Down Home" your first album?) when I was babysitting folksinger Mark Ross' record collection. He had all the Folk-Legacy records and I absolutely fell in love with the music of Art Thieme, Jim Ringer, Jerry Rasmussen, and other artists. One of these days, I'm gonna start collecting some of the old vinyl records.

And if anyone is interested, check out my band the Low Tide Drifters at www.myspace.com/lowtidedrifters. Sorry about the shameless self-promotion (chuckle).