RIP Root.
He used to come into the small record store in the neighborhood in Takoma Park, Md. where I was living at the tiem. The store was owned by a son of the former Governor, Blair Lee. I would go in there and he would be sitting in a chair with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Looking back I should have taken an album, or even that 45 in and had him autograph it. However, I never knew exactly when he would be there, so I guess that is why I never did that.