For me the list of dead-or-gone-and-wish-they-weren't starts with Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, Steve Goodman, Woody Guthrie, Dave Cousins/the Strawbs, the Dead, Terry Reid . . . and certainly includes my grandmother, Sara. I can still see us on her porch, me in her lap and maybe two years old, and her singing me this tune. Not long after, I'd learned some of it, and she made me sing it for her friends one night after dinner. I remember that scene, too. I really didn't want to do it; I was so afraid. Now I cherish the memory and only wish I had the whole sequence on film . . . so I could remember what that tune was and hear her sing it once again.

--Robo