Just thinking about all this makes my hair hurt smile Our best friend and mentor with whom Janice and I played and recorded as a trio was a N'ville musician. He recorded with many including Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, Bill Monroe, Porter Wagner, Faith Hill, George Jones, Dolly Parton, Chet Atkins, Ricky Scaggs, Kenny Chesney, Emmy Lou Harris and Kathy Mattea.

Apparently they had a pretty relaxed atmosphere in the circle he ran because he never mentioned much about paper work. He'd jam with folks at the Station Inn and get invited to play on a project. He never mentioned anything about passing around paper work in advance -- and we were so close that he would have told us that at least initially as he went from being a 12 Time US Champion fiddler to a N'ville session guy almost overnight.

After his untimely passing we released a CD of our home recordings with him to raise money for cancer research. One of the songs he and Janice sang was written by a prominent member of the Gaither Music group. I contacted them via phone to see about arranging for the rights and they said forget it. It's yours. Don't worry about it. I guess that it is rare but it does illustrate another side to some of this.

And perhaps if I was in things from an adding to the library perspective, etc., I might have another attitude. I just thought I'd throw this in the conversation.

Bud

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