Glad to hear your son continues to progress, Marty.

I joined a cover band, The One Eyed Jacks, early last year. One of the band members had written a Christmas song -- "Merry Little Christmas To You Too" -- years ago but had never recorded it. I finally got to hear it one day then I rehearsed it with some of my bandmates. I decided to start recording a version of it at home to help me remember it and to provide the writer with a souvenir. He liked it so much that instead of waiting for some time when all of us could get together to try to record it for entering it into a contest he said I should just keep going with it. One other bandmate does appear but I'm on the vast majority of tracks and, for better or worse, (co-)produced it. It made it to the finals of thenextholidayclassic.com -- and it has actually gotten some airplay on both WIZZ-AM (a small station in Greenfield, MA) and WMAS-FM (a large station in Springfield, MA), garnering on-air compliments from the DJ's at the latter station at least. smile I've heard it once on each. It's been a pleasant surprise and made for a memorable holiday.

Peter