I love Phil Keaggy! At one of his concerts in the Houston area I won his album, "The Master and the Musician", which was on my turntable more often than anything during my college years.

Porter Wagoner released his first album the year I was born. I remember seeing him and Dolly hawk boxes of Breeze detergent ("with a towel in every one!") on his TV show back when our set was black and white and I was learning to tie my own shoelaces. I remember lots of bright blinding flashes on the TV screen from all of the rhinestones on their outfits, as they moved in front of the spotlights.

16 year old Anthony da Costa, a Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk winner in 2007, wrote a song about Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton - a young man's impressions of love and life and the couple and what could have been.
See the video of Anthony's song, "Dolly and Porter", from his performance live at the 19th annual international folk alliance in memphis, tn. performance alley showcase on the knoxville stage here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sza_gNUaTtc
http://www.anthonydacosta.com

Rick Spreitzer of Charlotte, NC wrote a song called "Porter Wagoner" (from his album, "Dirt Tracks" 2004), about a forgotten small town highway diner's big experience of a lifetime, and of memories and things we keep around, like that T-bone in a pickle jar from the day Porter Wagoner stopped through on his way to somewhere..
http://www.rickspreitzer.com

Porter was bigger than life, and so was his hair back in the day. He will not be forgotten.

I was able to sing back-up for Phil at a solo concert in MD. He had a song "that just needs back up", so he asked if some folks from the audience would come up to the mike and sing harmonies for the song "Sunday's Child". I had always had the fantasy of being called to the mike during a concert. This was my shot. We sounded pretty good in my opinion. Funny, he didn't ask me to go on tour or anything . . .