Dear Beeliner,

Please come and join the Wave Hill Holt campaign. A child of the late fifties and the sixties, I have this deep unshakable belief in the power of grass roots movements. Now that we have the Internet, one person no longer needs to go house to house or shop to shop to unionize (or whatever), instead, just like in the old days, we recruit one friend at a time, and that friend, we hope, brings in more friends and more friends still. No, it's not a multi-level marketing scheme, just plain ol' folks making their voices heard. So maybe you know someone who has some Will Holt albums or maybe some friend further down the road knows someone. But, as I'm sure you know, this kind of campaign lives solely on word-of-mouth, or blog on the Internet. I am absolutely no one, except a passionate fan of Mr. Holt's (and, of course, the most beautiful song ever written: Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."

So, please pass the baton and see how many people you can get to sign on. With enough voices, we can overrule the lawyers at wmg (Warner Music Group, currently holders of the Rhino discography) who say you can haven't something, even though they're not now and, as far as anyone can tell, no plans in the future for re-releasing these recording on any format whatsoever.

r