[Mike Rivers]

I expected Paul to beat me to this one, but Mike lost a bout with a very
aggressive cancer Friday night. Fortunately, he went quickly. He was
75.

Mike devoted his life to old time country music - learning, performing,
teaching, sharing, presenting, collecting, and documenting it. He made
this music important, not just to city folks like us, but to the people from
whom he learned it, and the generations after them.

Mike was a friend of mine for over 40 years, a joy to listen to, to play
music with, and to work with in the studio or in the field on occasion. He
left a lot of good music behind, and because of how he presented it and
helped it flourish and grow rather than just be preserved in a living
museum, we won't have lost his music, only his driving force.




--
If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach
me he
double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo -- I'm really Mike Rivers
)