RE: our album "Mr. & Mrs Garvey."

This album was released in early summer of '68. We had been "struggling" in the music business for five years, which seems like an eternity when you're in your twenties. And it came like a bolt out of the blue.

We had been living in Aspen & other remote places for many years, with brief sorties into LA & then back to the mountains again to lick our wounds & regenerate.

At some point we said "Let's give up trying to 'make it,' start a rock band and just have some fun. At the same time, Chet Helms, who started the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, came to Denver and opened a huge club, bringing in all the great groups of the time - Jefferson Airplane included. We took our rag-tag, funky, not very good band (we called it the Aspen Yacht Club) down to Denver and auditioned. We ended up opening for the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, and got offers from 3 - count 'em - record companies. Epic was the one that worked after many months of back & forth.

The record got great reviews in newspapers across the country and in Billboard & Variety magazines. John Denver covered "Fugacity" on his first album and the Irish Rovers recorded "Fifi O'Toole," which climbed to #1 in Ireland.

The physical recording in Nashville was amazingly exciting. By some stroke of luck we got Bob Johnston, a producer of prodigious energy & talent who had previously produced Simon & Garfunkle, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan & many others.

We recorded for three 14 hour days, at the end of which I had no voice left. And for a band we got the Nashville Cats, who backed almost everyone who came to Nashville to record (YES, that IS Charlie Daniels on the far left). We really wanted their pictures on the record since they were usually the unsung heroes we had all been hearing but not seeing. They even flew in an oboist from the Atlanta Symphony for the opening of "Fugacity."

We insisted on bringing our wonderful pianist, Craig Doerge, we had just begun to work with in LA. It was his first pro-job. He went on to work with James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Crosby, Stills & Nash and the Section.

With the exception of "Ghost Towns," all the songs were written in the 2 or 3 months preceding the recording.

Sadly, due to some inter-office negativity between LA & NYC, the album was not promoted. Not an unusual story in this business.

Still, what I remember is the Joy & all the great fans & friends made as the result of this album. Thank you, all, for your friendship & support over the years.

Victoria