Over the last few years, when I would hear the Christmas season music, albeit it very good and unique, I always wanted to do many of those songs in a stringed-instrument, acoustic type of format. You know: fiddles, mandolins, banjos, dobros, dog-house bass and acoustic guitars. Well, this is a vision-dream-come-true-sorta result. 15 instrumentals and 2 vocal songs, all recorded in the mountains of Colorado, using those very acoustic and string instruments. "Now We Got it All" is a capture from 1988. It's the first Christmas I spent with my wife. Recorded earlier that year and given to her as a gift (yes, I know, a bit sappy or folksy) but just the same, it's how I felt. Through all of life's ups and downs, God had sustained us and we came together and how we had it all. As the final chorus explains, the heavenly gifts were gold in the sunrise and silver from the moon. "Old Fashioned Country Christmas" is the last song on the CD and is a prayer and hope I suppose all parents and grandparents hope for. We get to experience this more often than not. Except those grandkids are getting older and have lots of places to go that time of year. It's a mile-marker of a blessed life for me and my wife to look back on and celebrate to this day.