Gracias, Julian. Thank you.

With Ferron, it's worthwhile to hear everything and to learn her story, the better to embrace her and her music's journey. When I was without a home in 1979, she let me stay at her place until I found a place of my own. That moves me to this day. Testimony was the album she'd just released at that time. We used to drive around in her old Volvo delivering boxes of that LP to Vancouver record stores. The songs on Testimony are survivors, like Ferron. Shadows On A Dime has some powerful songs. That was a challenging period, not without its scars. I saw Ferron this past summer with her band at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival in Jericho Beach Park, 38 years after we'd performed there together. She was magnificent. We danced. We cried. We were lifted up. Ferron still has it.