I (Bud) was late to the musician party. However I grew up listening to all night radio and walking around during the day with a little transistor radio -- loved music from my absolute earliest memories. Later I had a band booking business in college and along with a biz partner recorded garage bands on leased studio time. After grad school and early into my long hospital admin career I decided I was gonna learn an instrument. I was surrounded by friends who played bluegrass so I took up guitar and stuck with it until I became reasonably proficient. At that point my friends had formed a band and told me they didn't need another guitar so I was to be the bass player smile And for decades I played that upright - the one that now gathers dust in a corner.

Janice has been musical all her life. She played clarinet in high school and her 96 year old mother still plays piano. I showed her a few chords on the guitar and along with encouragement from our friend and mentor the great Randy Howard she quickly became a fine rhythm player on guitar and mandolin and began to sing. We had been married for seven years before I even knew she could sing -- not sure she knew either. But Randy was a grammy nominated artist who had recorded with Nashville's best and when he heard her first vocal efforts he knew there was something there. He passed away too soon and we never do anything musical w/o thinking of him. Had he not heard her singing under her breath and encouraged her I wouldn't be typing this!

For anybody interested here is a one page summary of him on our website. We do miss him.
Randy

Bud

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