I saw this dude in the summer of 2003 at the Oregon Country Fair singing with the Kitchen Syncopators... and as cheesy as it sounds... he old timey voice and the music he was playing changed my life. I got back to my dorm room all the way in Florida, did some web searching, found the syncopators online, and I've been following him ever since. I even ran into Woody Pines, the washboard player for the Syncopators on a corner in downtown Asheville playing the banjo... small world.