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Jack White.  Great guitar player and performer.

The scene where at the beginning where he builds a diddley-bow is fantastic.

Yup.  The Seattle Myst. 

Although the Google tells me that the LFL has pretty much ceased competitive matches this year.

Good list.

I've heard of quite a few.  Let me make some recommendations:

The Carolina Chocolate Drops are awesome.   Traditional old time southern field and slave songs.   And some new stuff, too.

John Mellencamp.  You know him.

Darrell Scott - Dude is an IBMA Hall of Famer.  Even if you've never heard of him, I'll guarantee you've heard his songs.  He writes for a ton of people.  He's also a Wintergrass regular.

Peter Rowan - See Darell Scott, only he's been around longer.  Also a Wintergrass regular.

Justin Townes Earl - One of my personal favorites.  Steve Earl's son.  A better songwriter, too, if you can believe it.  His firs record, "Yuma," is one of my all time faves.

Elvis Costello - You probably know him from his 80's electronic years.  The guy is a seriously talented artist, and has been on an acoustic bender the last few years.

Johnny Cash you know.  His son just released an album of unreleased songs.  And while I'm all in favor of more J.C., I can understand why some of these songs didn't make it to release.

Avett Brothers - Fantastic duo from the Carolinas. 

Bob Dylan you know.

Black Prairie.  Three fifths of The Decemberists.  Not nearly as morose, though still kind of mellow and blue.   Good band out of Portland.  Their fiddle player is a fantastic person.

This list is missing two artists, though

Jason Isbell's latest release "Southeastern" is nothing short of a masterpiece.   I know it probably isn't "acoustic enough" but that is some awe inspiring songwriting.   If "Elephant" doesn't make you choke up and cry, you have no soul.

The Milk Carton Kids should be on everyone's radar.  They're channeling Simon and Garfunkle up there.

I always try to end up with a $0 balance come tax day.  I want to pay what I owe, and keep the rest working for me.  I got $650 back this year, which is OK considering the checks I had to write the last three years.   

I'll probably need to adjust my withholding again, though.

I would absolutely recommend dropbox.  It's easy to use, it simply shows up as another drive in your Window's explorer, and it doesn't bombard you with advertising or trojan horses.   Google Drive is also very good, as is Box.Net.   I use all three.

I think it's always great when someone explains how they think about things.  It doesn't have to make sense to me, which is the best part.  If it's working for you, keep those little robotic pickers picking, E! 

I'm taking it to rehearsal tomorrow, so we'll see what happens with it.

You bear a striking resemblance to Gertrude, widow of local TV hero, and the only "not creepy" clown in existence, J.P. Patches.

I am.  In fact, I have a great story about how awesome my wife is.

So...   Orvis is a pretty big outfitter, and also a big sponsor of Wintergrass (which makes them awesome in my book).   I have a bundle of old bamboo fly rods that used to belong to my grandfather.  I know enough about them to fill a teacup.  So the Orvis booth at Wintergrass this year had a guy in it with a fly casting training rod, and was tossing a bit of yarn back and forth.  I stopped and told him about my grand-dad's rods, and asked him what I should do with them.  He got an odd look on his face, leaned in and said the most amazing thing.... "You should learn to fly fish."

That hit me like a thunderbolt!  In all honesty, I hadn't even considered that.  They have a free course they give, and he handed me a flyer all about it.  My only problem:  One more thing that takes me away from the wife.  How am I gonna get this one in the mix.

We were driving in my car later that week and she found the fishing class flyer.  I asked her "So... you want to learn to fly fis?"  Kind of already knowing the answer.  But she surprised me with "I would *love* to learn to fly fish!  I've always wanted to."

So I signed us both up.  Class is on the 3rd of May.  And as we just bought a little 17' travel trailer, I can't wait to go.   

THUNDERSTICK!!! is still for sale if you're interested.   White and cream American built Musicman Stingray with hard case.  The case is well used (I gigged with this guitar for a while) but the guitar is in great shape.