Sometimes, you just have to be in the right place at the right time.

[mckenzee]

The Sunday night after John Denver died, I was in an Irish pub in Berkeley, California called the Starry Plough. Sunday night is their open jam session. 20-30 musicians, mostly traditional instruments, taking turns singing solos between open jamming.

Someone stood and started Country Roads a cappella. At the chorus we all joined in.

You may think you know the song, but if you haven’t heard it sang as a dirge by dozens of drunken Irish folk singers, you haven’t heard it.

This is also where I heard a 90 year old man sing Danny Boy. Not a dry eye in the house.