welcome leigha...

Songs about death eh... Well, it IS folk music right, so it can't be TOO cheerful... we're the people, the singer-songwriters, who love to see disaster headlines, because it means more material to write about!

Personally, I have a very cavalier attitude towards death... for me, it's not really anything to get strung out about... We're all of us terminally infected with this thing called life, and none of us are getting out of it alive... There are a couple of songs that I've had in my show for a while now that reflect that...

Sept, 11th? Well, I've chatted with a few other folkies about this subject, and the concensious among my heroes seem to be that no one is even mentioning it more than in passing in their shows... I know I'm not letting the actions of a few zealots dictate to me what songs I can play and when...

For instance... at a benefit a few days after, I played WHO DIES and COLD MISSOURI WATER both and the firefighter-folks there loved it!! Ended the show with Mary Ellen Carter to sorta 'take the sting off' as it were, and was nearly carried around on their shoulders afterwards!!!