The other night, completely out of the blue, I woke up with the thought that somewhere, I had a rare long playing record that just MIGHT have been recorded live at the Monde Marie in the early sixties. Unable to sleep until I had satisfied my curiosity, I finally leaped out of bed (3:30 am) and made a beeline to my office wherein resides my musty old collection of vintage LP's most of which I hadn't seen for years. I flipped my way feverishly through one of the boxes until suddenly, there emerged a 10 inch pressing in a plain paper wrapper bearing the words "Josh White and Travis Edmondson at the Monde Marie" in MY handwriting, neatly inscribed on the plain white slip cover!

It turns out that some unknown person had either taped, or assembled a "direct to disk" recording setup in the Monde Marie on the very night depicted in the photograph entitled "Party at the Monde Marie, 1965" within the collage you have kindly included on the website. The resulting metal master disk was duly pressed into a very limited edition (less than 20?) of old shellac-based black plastic disks, one of which is the original copy I now possess. The disk comprises mostly songs/blues by Josh White and a couple of tracks by the late Travis Edmonson (of the folk duo Bud & Travis) performed live that night at the Monde, PLUS applause and audience response. Sadly, there seems to be no discernible vocal input from Mary herself.

As a bonus, by any standard the recording quality is excellent, scratches, hisses, clicks and pops notwithstanding. Actually, I like the authentic feel of the disk and will decidedly NOT weed out these artifacts upon transcribing the material to CD. I intend to bring some of these CDs with me to the reunion in July. I have no intention of selling copies (potential copyright issues), but could give them away freely if there is interest.