you've--you're joined by janis ian and roger mcguinn and richie havens. i started this because-- i started my label called wildflower records, and i thought, "what could i do that would be fun "that would draw some artists together "who have the same kind of take on--on-- "are dissimilar in the-- in the sense "that there's a lot of contrast "but who've done music or that music that pleases me or songs that i knew before or hopefully will"-- next year we'll start doing some-- some singers and songwriters that people don't know quite so well-- a little younger, a little edgier perhaps. but this year, our first-- our first year of the wildflower festival--2001-2002-- we've done concerts all over the country with janis and with tom paxton and with roger mcguinn and richie havens and leon redbone. it's great, you know. i get to sit backstage and listen to the hostage and freedom and seventeen and turn, turn, turn. so it's been very exciting for me to be able to do that. and how are the audiences responding? oh, they're wonderful. also, they're audiences of all

roger mcguinn tells the story about how you were sure it was going to be a big hit, and his story is that it was written about an airplane flight. it was written about an airplane flight, but it was enough double entendre in it to where the gavin report, you know, just nixed it. they said this is-- it came out at the same time-- and there's a little guilt by association-- it came out at the same time as dylan put out everybody must get stoned. and that was pretty unequivocal. [laughs] they definitely banned our song. (paulson) and there was a little bit of a wink in the writing of that song? let's set it straight once and for all. yeah. gavin later claims that they were simply providing it as a public service and in no way encouraging censorship, but that's what happened. stations were worried about, you know, retaining their license. what about that period of time? it seems to me that-- especially in your career, david, the byrds were certainly socially conscious. you go to crosby, stills, and nash, the same story, and sometimes even more aggressively political. a song like chicago,