Have you heard Levon Helm's 'Dirt Farmer' album yet? It's as fine a piece of songwriting as I've heard in many a moon. Lyrics had me laughing out loud ("Poor Old Dirt Farmer") and goosebumping ("Wide River To Cross") and everything in between. You can tell a lot of it was written during his throat cancer ordeal. The doc told him he'd never sing again. Well he's singing a blue streak now, Jack! (Seinfeld homage: "Gary Fogel never had cancer!" lol). Now he sounds more like Ralph Stanley than Levon Helm. You can stream the whole dern album here:
http://www.rhapsody.com/levonhelm/dirtfarmer
You can refresh your memory re Gary Fogel here:
http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheScofflaw.htm
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