# The Essential Music Library: Grass & Roots **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 5, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-essential-music-library-grass-roots/334130 "2005-12-05T04:23:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-essential-music-library-grass-roots/334130/21 "2005-12-07T08:17:54Z")
> [@picker](#): > > Hi Folks > > I will be in here to post quite a lengthy list of thoughts and recommendations, but it will have to wait a little bit. Right now a whole bunch of things in my life have all come to a head to create a ‘perfect storm’ of suck and there’s just no way I can do this as well. Money, health, relationships, job, housing, musically - if there’s a way it can go south, it just did. > > Hopefully I’ll be able to get to this in a week or so; if I haven’t weighed in here by then by all means feel free to email me to remind me. > > Best to all Picker…i feel your pain… ☹ i hope your hope Southward journey turns into… _a headlight on a north-bound train, shining your light through the cool Colorado rain_ :smack: HOW could we forget John Hartford in this whole discusion; though he was mentioned vicariously in the “how bother where art though” post" … [John Hartford 1937-2001 musician, songwriter, steamboat pilot, author, artist, disc jockey, calligrapher, dancer, folklorist, father, and historian. Luckily, he never needed a business card.](http://www.johnhartford.com/biography.cfm) oh…and lest we forget Vassar…or Jorma… Peace, Love and Music, dsw…aka ThisSpaceForRent [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-essential-music-library-grass-roots/334130.md?page=1)