group called the byrds, and then they started the quintessential country western called the garrido brothers. after his death, but after i had only known him a year and was converted to country music and found my voice in that harmony singing and that kind of music, i really felt like i was supposed to carry forward his music, in a way, or at least try to convert people of my generation to country music. we tended to kind of dismiss it. i still had my love of folk music and i was still inspired by folk music, because in a sense they are all coming from the same pool. but when you are working on something that you love and you have the opportunity to learn with graham, who was kind of my teacher, and then to find myself with a really good people, really good musicians, the opportunity to make a record, and then lo and behold i had an audience, there was nothing to stop me but to keep learning those songs and trying to write. a lot had to do what the people who came in my sphere, wonderful talented young writers aware of my generation -- young writers who were of my generation, but who underst