Best Mail of 2004

Best Mail of 2004:

FROM: "David Batzofin" <daveb@702.co.za>

TO: <brian@backtothedirt.com>

Great album

Hi Brian,

I host a radio show in Jhb South Africa and I have just received your Alive and Picking album.

What a great album. As a folk/country music specialist I really enjoyed listening to it.

Shades of everyone from the "folk era" came rushing back to me.

Arlo Guthrie in particular! I got it yesterday and have had it in the cd player since then!

Is there anyway of getting any of your other albums,or perhaps even albums of peorple you have worked with on this one? Although my program is a talk show I do get to play music and I try to play country/folk where I can.

DaveB

FROM: "Theo Oldenburg" <t.oldenburg@hetnet.nl>

CD "Alive and Picking" received

Hello Brian,

Thanks for sending your live album "Alive & Picking". The music is great, and it seems to me that your singing is getting better and better. When I play one of the songs of the album, I'll send a playlist. By the way: have you seen the review of Psychedelic Pholk Songs on www.allmusic.com ?

I missed that one in the bio.

Best regards,

Theo Oldenburg

ALT.COUNTRY COOKING

Radio Winschoten www.radiowinschoten.nl

FROM: Blue Smoke Music Company <blue.smoke@actrix.gen.nz>

From Eddie / NZ

Hi Brian,

Yes, we have received your Alive and Picking CD. So far it's had a track played on a new releases programme, and is currently with a presenter of a folk programme -- it may have already been on the show on Saturday

Cheers,

Eddie

FROM: "youthbike" <youthbike@ntlworld.com>

NEW CD

The Cd arrived here this last week and I took it up to the

studio. We played two tracks but I can't remember which two.

You can say that your music has been played on Gravity FM and

Trust AM in England though.

Many thanks Tony

FROM: "Wortelboer, Rein" <Rein.Wortelboer@nld.xerox.com>

RE: Playlists PeelGrass

Dear Brian,

Thank you very much for your live album.Attached please find some playlists, which can also be printed from my website.

Regards and KEEP IT COUNTRY,

PeelGrass

Rein Wortelboer

FROM: "alan cole" <don.valleyam@virgin.net>

TO: <info@backtothedirt.com>

DATE: Thu, 27 May 2004 20:16:48 +0100

RE: hi there

hi there brian and many thanks for the c/ds, these have been added to the station library and are getting airplay already, keep up the good work and all the best for the future

alan & sonia

DON VALLEY AM

14 ELLESMERE SOUTH YORKSHIRE

DN7 5BS

ENGLAND

FROM: nik beat <nikbeatmb@yahoo.com>

TO: Brian Gladstone <brian@backtothedirt.com>

DATE: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:54:20 -0800 (PST)

RE: Re: Gigs and News

Hi Brian,

Thanks again for attending and supportin my work. It was a surprise and a pleasant one to see you there.

Can't wait to do Winterfolk! Keep me informed.

Yours,

Nik Beat

FROM: Jane Weber <Weber.Jane@rtvslo.si>

TO: "'info@backtothedirt.com'" <info@backtothedirt.com>

RE: To Brian

Thanks for Alive... cd - I'll play it.

Jane Weber, EuroRadio

Music Editor At Slovene National Radio (Active Member Of European

Broadcasting Union/EBU)

FROM: JBJoanandbill@aol.com

TO: info@backtothedirt.com

RE: Oasis

Hi Brian,

Just wanted to say thank you for last night. You're a triple threat kind o'

guy. Great performer, great host, great audience. Hope to see you soon.

All the best,

Bill Colgate

www.billcolgate.com

FROM: "Shane Simpson" <shane588@rogers.com>

TO: <info@backtothedirt.com>

Good Time

Hi Brian,

Enjoyed gigging with you last weekend - looking forward to more!

Hope you had a good trip back,

Cheers,

Shane Simpson

FROM: MrBigAlWatts@aol.com

TO: brian@backtothedirt.com

Brian got your cd wow I always sid you could pick now theres two of you to

entertain us down under I will write again later If my computer behaves itself

fantastic stuff mate Cheers Al

FROM: "noah zacharin" <noahsong@hotmail.com>

TO: brian@backtothedirt.com

RE: Re: News, Reviews, Whatever - November 2003

congrats on all the sweet victories. I look forward to hearing you on saturday. nz

Noah Zacharin

http://www.noahsong.com

http://www.cdbaby.com/noahzacharin

FROM: "lenka lichtenberg" <lenkal@sympatico.ca>

TO: "Brian Gladstone" <brian@backtothedirt.com>

Re: performances

Dear brian, thanks for your response. as i'm listening to "who killed betty..{norma jean}," i do find myself back in time when music was so much real or something...and you know what, brian, in the old czech republic where i'm from - people in the mainstream very much appreciate music like yours. it gets airplay all the time. people like you are loved and well known there.so, it sounds so homey to me - plus the songs have so much to say.

thanks for the tips from folkwax article! sure will come in handy - and for the words of encouragement as i'm spending hours a day for weeks now, trying to get some music industry people, and maybe a press person or two, to come down to the concert, and nobody responds, despite repeated follow-ups - and a stunning press kit! - ...you do have to be incredibly thick-skinned, eh? well, YOU i invited because of your peace activism (as my songs have)- and you are a very different kind of a person, clearly, and i appreciate you're very busy. it still would be a great pleasure to have you there dec.7th. - and i'm gonna try to break out shabbat habbits and come down dec 12.

take care

lenka

lenka lichtenberg, singer-songwriter, yiddish and world music performer. for mp3s, audio clips and performance updates, visit www.lenkalichtenberg.com

FROM: "Ian Betteridge" <ianbet@ozemail.com.au>

RE: CD

Thanks for your CD "Alive and Picking" which we have been featuring for some time now. We currently have track 4 on rotation and have previously featured tracks 1,3 and 5. Nice playing. I hope this gets to you as your flyer email address looks wrong to me and this one looks right. You don't stutter do you? Cheers, Ian Betteridge. Radio 2CCC-FM. Australia.

FROM: "Marianne Girard" <m.girard1@sympatico.ca>

re - BLUES RADIO- BLUZ.FM

Dear Brian,

Very cool. Everything about this show is focused and cool.

I hope you are well,

Marianne

FROM: "Jack de Keyzer" <jackdekeyzer@rogers.com>

TO: "Brian Gladstone" <brian@backtothedirt.com>

DATE: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:01:35 -0500

RE: Winterfolk Blues on JAZZ FM91/ Jack de Keyzer

Hi Brian:

Thank you for the update and for the invititation to perform Winterfolk

II. Both shows were very well received and I really enjoyed perfoming with

and meeting all the talented guitarists at the Swallow. Thank you too for

including me in the Danny Marks Winterfolk show...much appreciated. I

meant to call you beforehand, but I was out of town and realised I hadn't

mailed you a CD, before the show! I'm guessing Danny had a copy. I will

mail you one early next week. Congratulations again on putting together

such a wonderful group of musicians. Your Winterfolk is a bright spot in

Toronto 's winter.

Sincerely:

Jack de Keyzer

FROM: "RANG" <sirrus1@rogers.com>

TO: <brian@backtothedirt.com>

DATE: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:01:39 -0400

Thank you!

Dear Brian:

Thank you so much for your email. You made such a difference in the life of this first festival, and these

thanks of mine are truly heartfelt. My hope is that the music and the arts in a diverse fashion will continue

to be presented by RANG, and that its support of emerging artists will develop in a concrete and meaningful fashion. You have been beyond magnificent, both with the generous offering of your fine talent, and your amazing support. I love your impeccable musicianship and fine poetry/songs. That was a fine and incredible treat to have you take part in this first festival! I do thank you again and again! You made the finest difference!

Best always,

Jan