29 December 1997

Good grief, it's been a long gap there in between news flashes, eh? That's particularly inappropriate because these have been just the months where possibly the most news has occured. As you will see elsewhere on these pages, we are now very happy to be a five-person outfit. We've been playing some wonderful gigs, including the Philadelphia Folk Festival 1997, the Cherry Tree Music Co-op, and more. We've been in the recording studio at all hours doing god-knows-what... Someday there will be some results on that front. Those of you who always ask me whether there's ever going to be a fourth B.E. CD, I can tell you now that I'm almost certain that we will sometime next year. At any rate, we have new members and, since the summer, we have a huge boatload of new material which you can hear at the shows now. We still do a lot of the near-old stuff, albeit in various states of revision.

That's the short story. More timely news soon, I hope.

Jim Speer