Steve Rector had back surgery a few years back and has had a hard time getting over it. I talked to him on the phone last month. I am going to go over to his house and record him telling me stories about Mose Rager and a bunch of the other older guitarist that helped advance the style.
Moon Mullins came back in this year. If I remember straight he is living in Florida now but came back for the weekend. He sounded great and it was good to see him. I hadn't seen him in years. It is still odd for me to look at him without that big beard he used to have haha. His daughter, Alonzo Peninngton, my brother Joey, Jenny Armitage, and me used to be shooed away to play music by ourselves when we were kids. We had to let the grownups pick together haha. I have pics of all of us sitting on the steps of the music store in the "Kid Group" so we wouldn't bug the grown ups haha.

Eddie went last year but he wasn't there this year. He still picks alot but I hardly ever see him. I saw him at the Pennington Folk fest a few weeks back. We talk on the phone pretty frequent and he is doing good. He played at CAAS (the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society) convention last week as did Steve Rector. I was booked every day of the convention so I couldn't make it down. Somewhat frustratin for me because I was in Nashville a few days but because of gigs couldn't make it out.

Ben Hall was there this year.

I think I met Scott Nygaard years ago in Seattle at PSGW. I know I have heard him and he is a GREAT musician. I am almost positive though I met him years ago. I know my buddy Pat Kirtley talks about him alot. I am going to check the video in a few minutes. I have heard tons about Justapicker on here. I am going to be adding more of my instrumental stuff to my site coming up. My hard drive crashed last month and I lost tons of mp3's so if I have to I will record more but hope I can get some of them back. I don't have alot of mp3's to post thanks to me not having a back up haha.