Fellow Twaniacs --
Thanks, Barb, for posting that very perceptive and well-written review!
    I've just finished writing my own, and indeed Thomson nails it, as a
thing of beauty for those of us fortunate enough to have already discovered
the vast depths and eternal freshness of Sam's work, and as a wonderful way
to lure the uninitiated to the man H.L. Mencken called "the greatest writer
of the American language."
    I also have the CD, which is very nice, and makes you wonder had John
Hartford not been so sick when work began on the project if he'd have been
included. It would have made a good thing even better.
    Since Burns is coming to my neck of the woods Monday to chat up the
local
Chamber of Commerce, I'm hoping to get the chance to ask him directly why
the
film was cut from 6 hours to 4. I'll post his response.

Kathy O'Connell
Record-Journal
Meriden, Conn.

P.S. those of you with acquaintances at Knopf should try to get your hands
on
one of the posters. The manager of our terrific (and independent! Yay!)
bookstore saved one for me. It's lovely, and at the framer's as we speak.