Happy New Year! I hope yours is off to a good start. I got the tree taken down and everything put away, and was happy to have the day today to focus on music again. Tomorrow, I'll be driving to San Marcos, Texas, outside of Austin, for a couple more shows with local musician, Bob King, on the scenic old square with its antique stores and cozy cafe. What a quaint little river town! I was there just before Christmas and visited the historic Cheatham Street Warehouse (http://www.cheathamstreet.com), where I saw Gurf Morlix in concert, and what an enchanting experience it was! I realized that one of my "resolutions" for '08 will be to play San Marcos every chance I get, so I'm glad to be going back so soon and to be in such good musical company as Bob King, who never fails to keep me entertained (and everybody else, too). I'm also excited that in '08 I'll be doing the early evening show on Fridays at the fabulous Last Concert Cafe "supper club" (http://www.lastconcert.com), accompanied by David O'Dea on banjo and mandolin and Michael Farber on bass. I've been playing off and on with these two "gypsy spirits," and we're quite a cast of characters if I do say so myself. This will be a lot of fun, so I'm glad we're going to make it a regular thing! Songs from The Road Less Traveled continue to make their way across the airwaves of stations 'round the globe. Over the holiday, "Be My Valentine (On Christmas)" was featured on the New Hampshire Public Radio Christmas show, "New Traditions," hosted by Andrew Walsh (http://www.nhpr.org/node/14407). I was pleased to be in the company of the well-known artists on this special program, which has been described as "a Christmas music collection focusing on all the great Christmas songs we don't usually get to hear on the radio." I'll be performing at the North American Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis in February (http://www.folkalliance.org). And The Art Guys (http://www.theartguys.com) have asked me to write a song for a compilation honoring their twenty-fifth anniversary. The New York Times says, "[they are] a cross between Dada and David Letterman, John Cage and the Smothers Brothers. Add a touch of Claes Oldenburg and Groucho Marx, and you've got a fair idea of the performance/conceptual art of The Art Guys." So, you see, I've got my work cut out for me! This letter is getting long, yet there's so much more that I'd like to tell you. At least I was able to highlight some of the things that I'm feeling passionate about this year, though I wanted to include the recent music reviews because the critics have put a good deal of thought and time into them, and I appreciate their insights. But I'll send those out in another email soon. And in the meantime, I will wish you and yours whatever kind of year you would most like to have. And I will hope that our paths will cross somewhere down "the road less traveled." Y'all come!