I've got an interesting story about Tracy and one of his accordions.

About a year ago my Irish band was playing at the most traditional Irish pub in Baltimore, called J. Patricks. I started talking to this guy who bought me a drink and I started telling him about Cajun music. Apparently he had bought an accordion at a pawn shop. The accordion had the name "Tracy Schwartz" engraved on the face plate. He knew of Tracy Schwartz, however, and wondered why in the hell his accordion would be in a pawn shop. So eventually he contacted Tracy and talked to him about the issue. Tracy actually travled to Maryland and got his accordion back. Unfortunately for the guy I met, he lost money, but willingly gave back the accordion

Shouldn't that be the pawn broker's responsibility for selling stolen goods? Even if he didn't know it was stolen when he took it in, he should have the identity of the person who pawned it.

It was a very brief conversation with Danny. If you see Tracy ask him about it. I heard the story after Augusta, or else I would have asked Tracy about it.

Jim

That was more or a rhetorical question. I didn't expect an answer. I've heard stories like this before, and I always wonder how the guy at the end of the line always gets stuck when they did no wrong that they knew of.