Ed,Thanks for the note! We are close to Chattanooga, and are thinking of trying our hand at some busking just for the fun of it! We mostly just love to play, but the interest in hearing this music is keeping ahead of our song list. My background is in commercial standards music. I started playing minstral shows and "dances at the VFW, etc" in 1962 when I was in the 8th grade. Played trumpet in about any type of music you can imagine from clubs playing jazz to rock groups in the early 70's. Had little interest in folk music until my wife turned me on to this wonderful stuff in 1968. It is just within the last 3 months that I have had an opportunity to perform the music, as I have picked up a string bass a couple years ago to mess around with and it is now consuming me! I have done a lot of theater, and have a soft spot to those smarmy harmony do-wop groups of the late 50s and early 60s, having performed Forever Plaid as well as a couple other original shows that were well received, but this folk music has a lot more substance to it and I find it to be a lot more gratifying to sing and play. I know a lot of the purists on this thread are probably gagging at this account, but facts are facts, and this is how I have arrived at an interest in the music. We can't all have cut our teeth on the Weavers!