That's Not All Folks

There is a lot of excitement right now in the realm of my folk music tastes:

• I just found out that Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and Ray Price came out with an album called Last of the Breed last March. I don't know how I missed this, but I did.
  

• The season finale of Showtime's Weeds ended with Pete Seeger's rendition of Little Boxes. Seeger popularized the song originally by Malvina Reynolds. The show opened with Reynold's version for the whole first season. The second and third seasons have opened with various artists' renditions of the song. I always wondered why they never
  played Seeger's version (by far the best, and the one I was most familiar with). The answer is now obvious: The producers were saving it for the perfect time. After a delightful episode, the song came on at just the right moment. It made all of the waiting worthwhile.

• Arlo Guthrie's first solo performance in decades, at Zellerbach Hall here in Berkeley, is just months away (April 10). Arlo is the son of the late Woody Guthrie. This is really a once in a lifetime opportunity.