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Here’s an interesting story for you. A few years back after Jack Hardy passed I was graciously gifted the bottle on the right by his ex-wife Angela Page. You see, Jack Hardy hosted the weekly Songwriter’s Exchange at his apartment in Manhattan which incubated and nurtured so many remarkable songwriters. It continues to this day in his honor. Part of the tradition is to meet first for spaghetti and wine. I think the spaghetti is the easiest way to feed a large group of people and the wine is fuel to give songwriters the chutzpah to share a brand new song with a room full of other songwriters. After Jack passed, Angela made sure that the bottles were given to songwriters that attended the exchange. I was very humbled to be gifted this one in particular. It lived in our studio before the flood happened and after the flood, I moved it up to safety into our dining room. Last week our friends from Switzerland came and Jean-Luc who is a wine connoisseur gifted us with a bottle of wine that he asked us to please share next Valentine’s Day. I decided to put it into the cabinet for safekeeping when he called to my attention that we already had a bottle of the same wine! Amazing how things come around sometimes isn’t it? #synchronicity #friends #songwriter #jackhardy #inspiration #messagesfrombeyond #wine https://www.instagram.com/p/B1jI16pBAPA/?igshid=zt22zga8n065

My CD of Jack Hardy's 1987 release, The Hunter, arrived from Korea a few days ago. Jack Hardy was a poet, a brilliant songwriter. I was lucky enough to see him live, once. #jackhardy #folkmusic