A collection of beautiful folk songs from Santa Barbara-based singer-songwriter Shelton, backed by local jazz luminaries. From Steve Shelton's website:
"A Fool's Hearty Wisdom once again brings together Wayne Peet and Tom Lackner. This Jack Ball Trio joined by bassist Roberto Miranda and trumpet player Josh Shelton. This latest takes familiar turns as well as some new diversions. There are solo, duet, trio, and quarter performances among the 13 tunes. Billed as Steve Shelton and The Jack Ball Trio find the trio both a conceptual organism as well as a reference to the live trio work performed by Steve, Wayne, and Tom over the past year working out the new tunes leading up to the recording sessions at Newzone in Los Angeles."