Several of the recently posted covers are so familiar - stashed as real-life vinyl in my basement. Haven’t listened to them in a long time. Makes me want to set up the old turntable again, since I don’t have a son who has converted my material-world to the digital world…….

Did you ever check out Huun Huur Tu or Yat Kha? Perhaps not your thing, but I’d be interested in your take - especially if you heard anything about the sound track from Storm over Asia/Yat Kha thing. It was an amazing performance to see in person.

And talking about harmonicas, have you ever heard of Mark Graham? Wrote a song for me once called “I am a bold scientist”. Funny. At any rate, he does music out of your area I think - mostly Irish/old time kind of stuff. He played with Kevin Burke (great fiddle player). They did a few CDs under the name of “Open House”- Kevin on fiddle, Mark on harmonica (maybe also clarinet) - percussion was provided by Sandy who used her feet - amazing. Funny story about one of the times they played on Prarie Home Companion. Great music if you like that kind of thing.

Music is such a big world - From New York to Asia to Russia to Ireland to the American Prarie - great, isn’t it?????

Happy happy new year.
xxoo
K