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Favorite CD: Mavis
Staples' "We'll Never Turn Back." |
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Favorite
new club: Ragamuffin
Music Hall, Roswell, Ga. |
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Favorite house sound system: Kerrville
Folk Festival in Texas. |
| 4. |
Seeing Anais Mitchell
live. |
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| 5. |
Visiting the Woody
Guthrie archives. |
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Collaborating
with Woody Guthrie. |
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Collaborating with William
Stafford. |
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One of my all-time favorite singers liked my CD ("Writing in the Margins").
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| 9. |
Beginning the "Longing for Eliza" show with Cliff
Eberhardt and Eliza
Gilkyson. |
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The
Sierra
Leone Refugee All Stars DVD. It should be required viewing for every over-privileged U.S. musician. |
| 11. |
Cowboy stories where the good guys fight and win. |
| 12. |
Which means any of the 30 odd Louis L' Amour stories I've read this year. |
| 13. |
Didn't have to vote against anyone this year. |
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Seeing
Jonathan Byrd live. |
| 15. |
Finding
out that slightly overweight people live longer. |
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| 16. |
Releasing a hi-def, high resolution surround sound DVD ("The Gypsy Life").
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| 17. |
Hearing it on my brother-in-law's home theater system because I do not
have one. |
| 18. |
Didn't get abducted by aliens this year. |
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Singing
with Antje Duvekot. |
| 20. | Getting to hear Cape Breton and other Nova Scotia songwriters and musicians at Stan Rogers Festival in Nova Scotia. |
| 21. |
360 or so naps taken. |
| 22. |
Finding out nappers live longer. |
| 23. |
Didn't bomb Iran yet. |
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Playing in Jersey City, N. J., land of my people. |
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Singing
with Rose Cousins. |
| 26. |
Public finding out the dangers of optimism. |
| 27. |
The bright side of pessimism coming to light (things generally turn out
better than you thought they would). |
| 28. |
Angelina, Britney and Paris agreeing not to call more than once a week.
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Seeing,
hearing and performing with Michael Manring. |
| 30. |
My mom turned 90 |
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| 31. |
Having more favorites than I can remember. |
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Our kids still like us. |
| 33. | Singing and doing shows with Meg Hutchinson, Drew Nelson and Amilia Spicer . |
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his own site John Gorka made a longer list. Here are the numbers 34 till 36: |
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Concert
for Bob Feldman, St. Paul, MN |
| 35. | One of my songwriter heroes learning one of my songs. |
| 36. | Seeing how vast and varied the country is and marveling that it is not more divided and fragmented than it actually is. |
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