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Linda
Dear Friends and Fans.............
I apologize for being an unfaithful blogger and vow to try to do better this year as I do every year. Ha ha ha.
I'm wishing you all a wonderful 2008 and I hope you propser as well as experience excellent health. I spent New Years' in the hospital in Tallahassee with an infection in my foot. I was released on January 10th and I've been recuperating here at home and now I've almost recovered completely. For those of you who knew, Thank you for your prayers and kind thoughts and phone calls.
JOHN STEWART PASSES
I'm thinking today about John Stewart, the great singer/songwriter who passed away Saturday in San Diego of a massive brain hemmorahage. You can check out the story here in the LA Times.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-stewart21jan21,1,6104418.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california
or here at http://www.chillywinds.com/ (a very nice story)
I had the great experience in 1973 to meet John and Buffy Ford in Nashville and be a background vocalist on his classic album "CANNONS IN THE RAIN". I remember having great time and hanging out at RCA Studio B during the whole project. I had just signed with Elektra Records that January and was waiting for my first album to come out. Pete Drake was working on the album and introduced me to John, who instantly invited me to be on the project. It was a thrill for me as I had been a HUGE Kingston Trio fan. My older brother Lee and I saw him with Bob Shane and Nick Reynold at the Miami Beach Civic Center in 1962. I was 13 years old. You can only imagine how wonderful it was for me in 1973 to not only meet one of my major musical influences, but to work with him as well.
For more biographical information on this songwriting icon you can go to http://www.chillywinds.com/home.php?page=biography
"Rest in peace, John. Your words and music will live on forever"