Don Grooms and Southwind - Bittersweet

The Bitter
Cold North Wind
Sugarbabe - Lipscomb-Grooms
Birmingham Belle
Tsali Died for Me
Tomorrow

The Sweet
Lady Mary - Trad.
Wild Birds - Grooms
Green Rolling Hills - Phillips
A Good Heart - Grooms
Chickenbone Special - Grooms

It all started around the campfire at the Florida Folk Festival in White Springs when most everyone else had gone to sleep.

Our voices and instruments blended so well, we decided to meet at Sandra’s place in Crystal River. That sounded so good, we went into the studio.
We recorded at Progressive Music Studio in Tampa with Bill Dudley recording engineer and Ken Veenstra as mixing engineer. Ray Valla and Buddy Ray at Modern Music in Gainesville did the final production.

Don Grooms, writer, lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Dennis Devine, lead guitar, harmony
Sandra Jemison, bass and lead harmony
Mary Ann DiNella, harmony, lead guitar
T.J. Wangerman, mandolin and harmony
Sharon Naumann, autoharp and harmony
Tim Diehl, drum brushes and Chickenbone

Tsali