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My two oldest children play the piano, but under no circumstances should you allow the oldest boy sing. we refer to him as "the fishwife."

I believe it would add no small amount of charm. Although not the same sort of charm as the Peasall Sisters, but charm nonetheless.

Actually, if I'm not mistaken, you wouldn't necessarily all play at the same time to record anyway. My future son-in-law was in a Christian band (they had to quit due to the demands of college) which recorded a CD. I'm pretty sure they recorded some of the parts at different times. The vocals were separate from the instruments, I know.

How'd they manage that? Just passing their tracks around and adding in new ones?

We have a "computer genius" at church who has a recording studio, and he helped them with it. He was just getting started, so he gave them a good deal because it gave him practice using his equipment. They would record part of it, then for the next part the musicians would listen to the already-recorded part through headphones so they would have the same timing. WAY too complicated for me to understand.

Well, surely we have some technical people who can work this out.

If I was thinking "Bluemobile'06". That Crysler 300 C SRT would be my jumping off point, get it in Bad Boy all black add some K&Ns, 5 point harness, a roll cage and mount a aux 25 gl tank ina da trunk. A nice go to Sunday car.

What you think my MoronHood™ only extended to stoves?

or we could wait until Terry is "outed" and just all show up at his house one day.

We couldn't do it before then because doing that would of course serve to "out" him and I know all of the Weevilities have taken the sacred vow to protect Terry's secret identity.

Hey, I was just kidding, but the tech part of it isn't that hard. In my case though, talent is.

HEY! Tony's buying us a CAR! I nominate Chef Tony as the world's nicest guy!

And thank you Tie Rod for you solicitousness. I would would hate for anyone to find out that I am actually a 59 year old black woman living in St. Louis.

And Larry, surely you know there is no such thing as joking when you talk about stuff like that!

I thought you were a 75 year old transgendered person of Hispanic/Asian/Eskimo descent living in Moscow Idaho?

Only on Thursdays.

Hey, I'm a technical people ...

For the timing, set up the Prehensile Possum Tail Metronome, and the musicians can keep time with the swinging tail. There's probably freeware at download.com that you can use to mix the various mp3 tracks that people would send to you.

If nobody else has claimed it, I would like the percussion section - triangle player seat, employing my best Ed Grimley impersonation.

What songs would you select for the CD:

Sweet Home Alabama?
South's Gonna Do It Again?
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida?
The Lumberjack Song?

I think given the bluegrass proclivities of our musicians, some of the old standards might be nice. Rawhide, Blue Moon of Kentucky, I'll Meet You in the Morning, I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger, God Holds the Future in His Hands, Flop-Eared Mule, stuff like that.

Is there still time to get a bluegrass Christmas album put together?

Where there's a Weevil, there's a way!