It was January 3rd 2020 and we received a text; our bass player said he quit. Oh no! You can't just quit Ida Clare! We had spent so much time together - writing and arranging songs, developing our sound, entering contests, winning, recording our first CD, and well - just hangin’ out. We had been through a lot. We had booked as many gigs as we were willing to play through August of that year - life was good. But now we didn't have a bass player - this was terrible. What else could go wrong? The pandemic started in March! All our gigs were canceled. We stopped practicing. I stopped writing songs. No one knew what the future would bring. For a long time it didn't bring much. Then slowly we started playing again...outside....separate mics.....different guest bass players. Sometimes we played as a trio. That was pretty rough, but at least we were playing. Truth is, we were just holding it together with the hope that someday, when the wind was from t...