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Hey Bill, did you get your list of questions? I didn't realize you were such a wimp!

My Dutchie story - I met a guy in Dartmouth, NS, once who showed me his new electric guitar (I recall it was a Richenbacker wanna-be). Anyway, I asked him where he had bought it and he said "Oh, I didn't buy it, I won it off Dutchie Mason in a poker game.

to: rockyjohnstone

You're probably right. I knew Clarence White played with the Byrds. I thought Norman played on the Sweethearts of the Rodeo album but I must have been thinking of Dylan's Nashville Skyline album that Blake played on. I've been a Blake fan since the mid-70s and my mind plays tr...

Gordie ... his D-18 ... a great tune. What more could you ask?

G. Parker

A great tune. I first heard it by a band from the blind school in Amherst, NS on a Dartmouth Cable TV remote from Farrell Hall in 1972. So I've been singing that line "I'm on my second cup of coffee and I just can't face the dawn" for the past 40 years. So nice to hear the rest of the song! Go Go...

Very nicely done.

G.P.

How did Ralph Emery ever get his own show - "Sam ... aw ....awww .. what were you trying to revive?"

Give me a break!

Yes, check out the Stupidfingers version or the yoneman3 version. Both are very well done and in the correct (open D) tuning.

While there many be many who have the music inside, only a select few, like Ry Cooder, posess the talent to share it with those who are really listening.

G.P.

Nova Scotia, Canada

Typical Ralph Emery interview. He just winged it, didn't do any research and asked stupid questions. "I usually get one in my nose" pretty well sums up Ralph's "wit" ....

What was the next question.... "Duh, Tony, could you explain why a guitar has six strings?"

Flip that hair around and beat the crap out of decent guitar so it sounds cheap and no one will notice that you can't play!

Guild D-35 has a spruce top, mahogany back & sides. The D-25 is all mahogany. As the number hints, the D-25 was the lower end model, nice guitar though. If you can find an old Guild from the 60s or 70s, you will find a guitar every bit as well built and comparable sound to a Gibson but a lot less...

Wouldn't it make more sense to compare a J-45 to a Martin D-18? The D-18 and J-45 are both Mahogany back and sides with spruce top. The HD-28 is Rosewood back and sides with spruce top. Also, the J-45 and D-18 are almost identically priced. I don't see what could be gained from comparing the J-45...

Thanks for taking the time to listen and comment. I have been a big fan of Allan Fraser and Daisy Debolt since the early 70s (or since I first heard These Dancehall Girls). I was particularly drawn to this song by the incredibly descriptive lyrics.

G.P.

I've been a Cale fan since early 70s - in my mind, he's the number one 'groove' man. By the way, great to see a good player with an old Fender P-bass and notice, only four strings! What a concept.

JJ - keep rollin buddy. I also picked up your CD with .... ah.... what's his name .... the guy from ...

The early Beatles (62-65) were tunesmiths, and very good ones. They churned out pop tunes, all the while perfecting their craft and preparing themselves for the second half of the decade when they were much more innovative and influential. Perhaps the most important thing the Fab Four did was wor...

The early Beatles (62-65) were tunesmiths, and very good ones. They churned out pop tunes, all the while perfecting their craft and preparing themselves for the second half of the decade when they were much more innovative and influential. Perhaps the most important thing the Fab Four did was wor...

proud to say I have a vinyl copy of Bop Till You Drop. I also have Borderline, two albums I consider among Ry's best. If you like this version of Little Sister, search these two albums for hours of musical bliss.

It's so neat to see the love for Gordon that exists in other countries outside of Canada where he has been a national treasure for 50 years.

The wonderful thing about this version of Keep Your Distance is the way the arrangement manages to defy classification - not country, not folk, not rock, not pop, etc. It's just great music ... nuf said. Isn't it time we, as consumers, demanded an end to the destructive "formatting" of our music?...

Hey Adam,

That's great fiddlin', if you ever want to move to the East Coast of Canada, e-mail me first because it would be so cool to have you living in my neighbourhood! Tell me a little about that five-string fiddle .... I don't think I've seen one before.

G.P.

Nova Scotia

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