I have a barn full of memories about GHG, which I rank among the best alltime quartets -- no matter what parameters anyone sets. I hope folks remember your creativity in competition as you climbed the ranks, including the jockey set in (where else?) Louisville, "K.P." with the helium potato floating away, and your artistry that set a Society record in the old interp category with "Southern Roses." Some other CSD quartet had held that mark for several years, with a pretty nice song called "Tie Me to Your Apron Strings Again."
Before Kahl jumps in and writes pages of drivel, er, texican tales about what he THINKS he remembers, lemme offer one special time involving our two foursomes. On a joint CSD show we did an impromptu double quartet version of "Bye, Bye Blues," and to make it fun (and challenging), one of us did the bell chords going up, and the other did 'em down. Worked so well, the audience would never have guessed we practiced that all of 5 or 6 minutes before taking it on stage. As I recall, we did that a coupla times, maybe the second time at the rr4 retirement show in '94. That was probly it, because afterward Jim Henry tried to gig us by saying "we've admired this quartet since we were little kids," and willard's immediate response was "wal, you ain't very big now!"
~ Jim Bagby | The Rural Route 4