What a bunch of winners...

I'm kind of proud of a couple of our PHS graduates. They're both seniors in college now, but I'm proud to say that I knew them back when they were a couple of sophomore fools who were begging me to let their band play a concert to benefit Pasta for Pennies.

One of the fools in that picture up there is Matt Murray who is now the editor in chief of the Kentucky Kernel, the University of Kentucky's student newspaper. Recently, one of Matt's pieces was named as the #1 review as awarded by the Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association and was nominated for the Hearst award for his article titled "Sit-in, then sleep-in at the Capitol" about a protest at the Kentucky state capitol against mountaintop removal by coal mining companies.

The fool opposite Matt in that picture up there is Michael Hardesty who headed a little further south after leaving Princeton. Michael matriculated to Belmont University and has apparently been doing pretty well for himself.

This past week, I got passed a bit of information saying that Michael had won a Grammy.

A frickin' Grammy.

The truth is a little more subtle, however, as Michael didn't exactly win a Grammy. One of the projects that he worked on, however, did, indeed, win a Grammy.

See, Michael was an assistant producer on Marty Stuart's newest album, Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions. An instrumental on that album, "Hummingbyrd", was nominated for and won the Grammy for best country instrumental.

According to PHS's recording expert, Michael doesn't have a little Grammy statuette because he wasn't a paid assistant producer on the sessions, but I still think it's pretty frickin' cool.

Take a listen to "Hummingbyrd."