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Cathy Guthrie and Amy Nelson

Linda Lee’s blog, stillisstillmoving.com, has become the foremost Willie Nelson fan website. Linda regularly posts articles and photographs about Willie Nelson concerts and the people and events surrounding him. Her coverage is comprehensive and there is much to read and see there concerning Willie.

If you are a Willie Nelson fan and you haven’t found stillisstillmoving.com yet, then get on over there. You won’t be sorry.

Saturday, July 20th, 2007, Linda interviewed Amy Nelson and Cathy Guthrie who play together as Folk Uke. During the interview, posted the following day, Linda asked Amy about “A Peaceful Solution.”

Here is the excerpt from Linda’s interview where Amy Nelson speaks about “A Peaceful Solution.”

Linda Lee: Amy, I want to ask you about the song, “A Peaceful Solution.” I read that you and Willie wrote that song in the early morning hours on a bus bound for Coachella. How did that song come about?

Amy Nelson: Well, it was a long time ago, before September 11, and I had this dream. It was that I was sitting out in the audience, and it was all dark, and I could see my dad up on the stage, playing this song and he was singing something about a peaceful resolution. And I thought, this is such a beautiful song, and I was captivated by it. And I woke up and I couldn’t remember anything about it, except those words: a peaceful resolution. And I told Dad about it, but it didn’t mean as much back then. The war hadn’t even started.

Then, more recently, I reminded him about that dream, and the song, and that I couldn’t get that song out of my head. Then, all of a sudden he said, “Hey look what I did. I wrote the song!” We were on the bus on the way to the Coachella festival when he did it, and I grabbed my voice recorder, to record it so he wouldn’t forget it. And he sang it on the voice recorder.

And then they posted it on Willie’s Peace Research Institute Site. Have you been there?

LL: Yes, I love all of Willie’s versions of the song, and all the other versions people have recorded, and the videos. It’s inspiring.

AN: Yeah! It’s so cool. And now everybody’s doing it. And it’s turned into so much more than I could have ever dreamed. And dad gave me credit for the song, but I didn’t write a word of it except for that dream, when I dreamed he wrote it. But now, everyone’s saying, “Oh, you did such a great job on that song,” and I go, “Ah, thanks.”

And then some people are adding lyrics to the song, and the added lyrics are great, too. I don’t think anybody’s ever done that with a song, taken and given it to everyone to work with.

Cathy Guthrie: It’s such a good idea, that peace stuff.

You can find the rest of the Folk Uke interview at stillisstillmoving.com.

You can find out more about Folk Uke on the Folk Uke website and the Folk Uke myspace page.

I really enjoy their music. I’ve heard it said that you could say anything if you are sweet enough.

Amy and Cathy certainly are sweet enough to say anything, and they do.

Sometimes it is hard to believe what you are hearing those sweet voices sing. If you have a sense of humor I recommend that you check them out.

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