Bryant,

You are correct of course. And Don't get me wrong, your path and attitude are one of the many ways to get here from there. I did it the same way you did in several respects. I went from listening to Bob Atcher on the WLS Barn Dance radio show in Chicago to appreciating the more trad songs of Carl T. Sprague, Mac McClintock, Glenn Ohrlin, Gail Gardner and today, Bob Bovee & Gail Heil & Skip Gorman. We all have unique paths we've walked to make a similar journey. Here at Mudcat I'm just trying to keep bad "truth" from being accepted by too many of the searching young ones. The Freight Hoppers old time band lived in North Carolina where they had good input from the get-go. Might be why they got pretty good so very young. My mission has always been to tell it right (just my point of view) both to shorten the trip and to correct what I see as bad info. My road was closer to yours than you might think though.

Someone once said, "You can take all the sincerity in show business, stuff it into a fleas navel, and still have enough room left over for 3 carroway seeds and an agent's heart." I always stayed away from the "biz" & "glitzy" side of this business (which it wasfor me) just so I wouldn't need to say "NO" so much. Was just a different mindset. Some of it may be the differences between the 60s and the 90s but that's too simplistic. Might be more accurate to see that some of us resist change bacause we know or knew what seemed to be a more satisfying way to view it once upon a time.

As Dylan once said,

"You're right from your side and I'm right from mine,
We're both just one too many mornings and a thousand miles behind."

Art