I just love these folks. Since they were here last, Sue traded a difficult to remember last name for a wedding ring, and I couldn’t be happier for them–they’re really a great duo. In conversation, Dana seems like the country gentleman farmer, someone who likes to keep things simple and honest. But his songwriting reveals a much more perceptive and complex individual lies just beneath the surface. Building a bridge between original songs and a strong influence of traditional appalachian music, Dana and Sue delivered a wonderful set of stories set to the music of guitar, old time banjo and fiddle.
Later, after everyone else had gone, Dana and I were talking about old tunes and ended up playing a duet on one of the first songs I learned to play on guitar–Mr. Bojangles. I suppose every folksinger who grew up in the 60’s and 70’s knows that one, and it is still one of my all time favorite campfire songs.