ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

For those who have written about the journey, taking it themselves, refusing to settle for secondhand gods. My students who for the past thirty-five years have also been my teachers. And: Benjamin Bailey-Buhner, Mary Brown (on bass), Phil Brown (on lead guitar and vocals), Tom Clemens, Kevin Compton (on blues guitar), Don Conoscenti (the greatest unknown musician in the United States), Eric Hansen (on vocals), Julie McIntyre, Harry Pickens (on piano), Calixte Raifsnider, Erika May Randolph (on flute), Trishuwa, and, of course, Melanie and Jeff at the Buck-horn (who make playing out like playing at home), Linda and Shelly at the Mine Shaft in Madrid (ditto), and Rodney Henderson (who makes us smile when he drums).