DW, my musical progression was actually more like: (Rock era) Elvis, Fats Domino, Jimmie Bowen, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Beatles, Stones, Animals, Canned Heat, Cream, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills & Nash, Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat. (Never heard of Clean Living until I married the bass player). (Country & Folk period) Willie Nelson, Moe Bandy, Hank Locklin, Amazing Rhythm Aces, Emmy Lou Harris (Bluegrass & Traditional) Wynn Faye (bless his soul, the one who started many New Englanders down the bluegrass path) and the Field Pickers, Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Nashville Bluegrass Band, Del McCoury, Stecher & Brislin, Norman Blake, etc.

I was never a "folkie," and I'm primarily a bluegrasser now, altho I'm currently president (in what was a hotly uncontested race) of a mostly classical music group.

Phil, I don't remember ever going to a house hoot in North Branford, and I thought I'd been to almost all of them for the past hundred years. Lately, they alternate between the Greens and the Shaws. If you left CT in '91, that was before I started playing guitar or fiddle. I used to go to all the hoots and sink into a trance from lack of motion during the "dreary groaners." Nowadays, Frank and I are the ones doing bluegrass duets. The last I heard, Kate McDonnell (GREAT singer-songwriter) was in Maine, after having lived awhile in Washington state. Robert's new wife (Anne) does a folk show on WNHU on Saturdays. Come back and visit sometime!