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from the farm: Well, we’re all sittin’ ‘round the stove watchin’ the snow melt push up the first promise of spring. The daffodils, crocus and snow flowers of Easter are peeping up through the brown and grays of winter on the sunny banks, so it won’t be long now. Everybody has a touch of the cabin fever and I, for one, am ready to git out amongst you’all. My good friends and pickin’ buddys, Roger Howell and Cathy Arrowood are helping me put together some more songs and stories. Also, I hope that my record “On Shaky Ground” will be to your liking when it appears this year. It is a collection some of the old songs presented the way I imagine folks would have done them if they had the advantages that we have now. Now, I’m not meaning to be irreverent, but my aim is to make this great music a little easier to listen to and more fun too. No matter what your reaction may be, the nice thing about old age is that everyone either says: “Ain’t he doing great,” or “You know how his mind is slippin’!!” My baby girl Laurin in trying to help me get all this stuff out of my head and on to something more reliable, and that is working tolerably well. Maybe we’ll have some of the stories out this year. But in the meantime, I’ll keep telling them the old fashioned way. Lots of good old mountain love, Joe |
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