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The other night wife and I went to live entertainment at the Avalon Theater in Easton. The week before it was a live show in Annapolis. I know it's not Broadway, but for us, it's bright lights, big city. It seems like my interest in singer-songwriter music keeps creeping into my aviation blog. And now it's happening again. At the Avalon we saw Livingston Taylor. He puts on such a warm and personal and funny show. I was blown away and forever impressed. The Avalon has a beautiful grand piano and excellent acoustics. What the hell does this have to do with aviation? You ask. At the end of the first set, Livingston was at the piano and he sang a song about the Wright Brothers. He mentioned that he loves flying and has a "rattley old airplane". He sang about Alaska too. Wife and I were spellbound. Usually I hang around for "meet and greet" after a show like this, especially when it's someone kind and accessible like Livingston. My man-cave is full of autographs. But we couldn't stay. It was the night I had to take son to BWI for the oh dark thirty flight. But I briefly saw Livingston during the intermission and interrupted him from a CD signing and asked him quickly what kind of plane he had. He said a 205 Cessna. I asked if that was like a 206 and he explained that it was the ancestor of the 210 series with a fixed gear. I quickly went back to my seat feeling a little bit guilty about butting in a line of folks who wanted to meet our one- man- show star. My wife asked where I had been during the intermission. I answered cavalierly, "Oh I was talking to Liv". Yesterday I cruised around the web and learned a lot about my new idol. He's about my age. His dad was a dean of a North Carolina Medical School. His mom is an artist who is still living at 86 yrs. old. All of the five kids had singing careers with recording contracts. The oldest Alex, has passed away. Livingston's brother "James" is a huge star of 40 years. The same night we saw Livingston, James was performing for Jay Leno's last Tonite Show. Today I went out to the hangar and looked through a box of old "AOPA Pilot" magazines. I found Livingston on the last page of the December 2006 issue. Now he's really my idol. Do you save those magazines? God I'm a pack rat. GA Informal.