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Over the last several months, I have started to
go through some of three or four hundred
recordings of dad's live performances,
interviews, story telling work shops and rants.
The recordings date as far back as the early
70's and include some of his last shows and
are recorded on every type of media
imaginable. As I go through the task of
transfering them to hard drive, I will put a few
of the gems on the jukebox. If any of you
have recordings to contrbute please do drop
me a line.

Yes, the long memory is the most radical idea in this
country. It is the loss of that long memory which deprives
our people of that connective flow of thoughts and events
that clarifies our vision, not of where we're going, but where
we want to go." - U. Utah Phillips

April 3, 2010
We have spent the last couple of weeks in
the Roto Sonic Sound studio working on the
first few tracks of our new tribute CD. Thus
far we have the rough mixes for
" Going Away","Pig Hollow",
" Miner's Lullaby " and
" Scofeild Mine Disaster ". Our plan is to
finish the rough mixes by the end of April,
take a deep breath, listen to it all and start
making plans for overdubs and such. We
hope to begin work on the final mix in the fall.
In the meantime we have been doing house
concerts and small gigs in the coffee shops
around town to raise dough for our little
project. It's all very exciting and the studio
work has been amazing. I am glad we made
the decision to comprise the CD of fresh
studio work. And did I mention that all of the
artists that are playing guitar on their tracks
are using dad's old road worn Guild guitar, it
sounds fantastic. To have the opportunity to
sit in the studios control room and listen to
folks perform dad's songs and playing dad's
guitar is very touching. Check out the CD
project page for some pictures, song list and
a few sound bites.