Hi MIck & Jeri. Doing fine. We had a BIG snow which is odd for these parts and I have been sledding my brains outand having a blast. Went to bed last night before I read your posts (half crippled from sled wrecks but blissed out from all the fun.)

Jeri--I never heard that Elton John Album. Was Bernie Taupin writing for him then?

Bernil--The 60's were such a fertile, creative time for a lot of different genres in music and other arts. It would be fun to see an "Evolutionary Tree" or time line such as National Geographic does to show how different "branches" split, merged and otherwise evolved from the music that came before. Can't really say "roots" unless you start with the rhythm of the heartbeat, followed by the pulse of drums and other percussion and the songs of the natural world as these were probably the actual "roots" of human music. I love that line from Paul Simon "These are the roots of rhythm, and the roots of rythm remain."