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Talk show hosts were foaming at their mouths! Dave was extremely nice to me, per usual, and gave a strong introduction - we played 'East of Woodstock, West of Viet Nam' with Paul Shaffer and the full orchestra.

Then: Back on the Road: The tour for 'Blood and Candle Smoke', and the fruit platters in the
dressing room and the microphones that smell like camel cigarettes circa 1952.

But the Letterman ratings almost doubled, and the press on our record was soaring and the shows are starting to sell out....I've been waiting forty years for this.

We relished that one night in a four star hotel in Manhattan and ran up the room service tabs to an embarrassingÌý amount...then drove through the Holland tunnel towards Jersey and Philly, where we taped Gene Shay's 'World Café' show and he told me that he had 11,000 records in his collection from the last fifty years and 'Blood and Candle Smoke' was in the top 25.

Hallelujah!