Kat(& all), It's an honor to have your dad say I was an OK picker. I sure am enjoying his renditions of some REAL cowboy songs. As I said in my private note, it was like finding a grand Library of Congress recording that, somehow, I'd overlooked. Thanks for sending it to me. And it was great hearing you on that tape too.

Sorry, but I've not heard that song your dad's looking for.
Another fine singer of cowboy and old-timey songs is Bob Bovee---along with the wonderful Gail Heil. Chris & I had a sumptious bar-b-q with them and Dick Kimmel & others at their farm in Minnesota while I was at Mayo.Sure was fine after-dinner music that night.

It was bitter-sweet to be hearin' the music "on the road" again. I did stop in Madison and bought a slew of CDs as well as a "nut raiser" and a "steel" to convert my guitar one more time---it'll be Dobro-like now. Maybe I can coax some decent sounds out of her that way. Hell, I'd try a vibrator if it did the trick.

Thanks to Rick Fielding for the tuning info he sent me for Dobro style. Say, Rick, did you send that CD again? It never got here...

Please excuse my spewings on some o' the alternative MS cures out there. I wasn't home from Mayo for 15 minutes before I had a phone call from a total stranger with the "magic cure"---packets of stuff to drink (after paying big bucks for it--of course). Many do mean well, I know--and I appreciate the thoughtfulness of so very many good people. I've looked into bee venom stings and having my silver fillings removed and being oxygenated in a high-pressure chamber and quitting Nutra Sweet and wheat and glutin and milk products. All that's left that I can eat, it seems, is TWINKIES! So, if we are what we eat, why am I not tall & thin like a Twinkie? Tell me that, huh?

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