Hank Williams once said you had to have surveyed a lot of ground over the back of a mule to sing Country Music. Marc never plowed behind a mule, but he did operate a hayrake behind a tractor on a farm in Michigan in the summer of 1970. He was living in a canvas tent he had sewed himself by hand at the time. The following summer, and for 2 years after Marc lived in a cabin in the Cascades with no electricity, and no car. He installed gravity flow running water using a wooden nail keg and 200 feet of garden hose. The outhouse was on the hill behind the cabin. Although Marc moved to town after a couple years, there was still an outhouse until Marc fixed the plumbing. Marc's son Cedar was born in that house, and his daughter Beth was born at home in the next house they moved to, near Duvall. That place, in the foothills of the Cascades, also had an outhouse for the first few months. The place around the corner they moved to after 5 years, b...