Meeting a legend

Charlie Louvin and Vincent Cross

Vincent reports:

'New York continues to provide great chances to meet the legends. Last night I had the great honor of meeting Charlie Louvin of the Louvin Brothers. A very quick-witted man, who had many stories to tell. As you probably know, I cover one of their tunes 'Cash on the barrel head', which I had learnt from the secondary source Gram Parsons.

'Playing with a few bands here, which helps as there are so many talented people. I've put some home recordings on my myspace page of some original songs, in the bluegrass vein, if any one is interested.'

Vincent adds the welcome news that Buddy Merriam, who last brought his solid, hard-driving band Backroads here at the beginning of 2006, will be returning in May 2007.