I've gotten quite a few submissions for the radio show from Catters over the last year, and along with the ones I get from regular channels ('bout 15 per week) it's easy to get wayyyy backed up. So I just thought I'd recommend a couple of interesting ones. There are other good ones I received before AND after, and I'll try to get to them over the next few months, but at the moment these are getting some airplay.

"Going Up the Missouri" features Catter Jim Krause in a really balanced collection of old time tunes. He uses the rarely heard and oddly named "English Guitar", banjo and fiddle, with good skill and great feeling. I look forward to hearing Jim "live" one day.

If you've visited ol' Tom Jefferson's digs way up on that hill, you'll see that he also had an "English guitar" on hand for his jam sessions. The tour guide never said whether he actually "played" one, but my suspicion is, that he did. (or maybe it was "Sally's")

Nice album. Jim, if there's anything you can add about the making of your album, I'd be interested.

KYLE SHIVER (see "Fortunato") "Gypsy Boy"

'Couldn't be more different than Jim's album, but equally enjoyable. I had to listen to this CD several times to really appreciate the mood of it. It's contemporary in style and lyric and has almost a "hypnotic" quality to it. I'm "instrumentally oriented" and needed the extra plays to get into Kyle's story telling, but once I did, I got hooked. Good work Kyle.

Rick