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Richard Thompson Tribute:

We had a little Al Bowly memorial celebration last night. He was killed on April 17, 1941 Bowly was a very popular vocalist and guitarist who performed with British dance bands of the 1930s. He was espeically popular with women; his band nickname was Al Sex. He was good natured and...

I love Ted Greene too much, so I I try to stay away from him. He infects my playing. Some time ago, I was goofing around trying out an acoustic guitar in a shop. I was playing a composition I was working on (and never finished) which was inspired by some things on John McLaughlin's...

Teddy and Richard If I recall correctly this tune started out its life as a solo acoustic guitar piece. Tim Finn (ex Split Enz and Crowded House) apparently loved the melody so much that he set words to it.

From the same session as above. The guitarist is Teddy Thompson, one of her children with Richard.

A very bitter and painful post-divorce song from Linda :

Also Rory Campbell in Hamish MacBeth.

One of the best ... Play list for the Shoot Out The Lights album

Linda Thompson interview to promote her new album, Proxy Music...

Riffing on Mirrors and Fashion: O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, Th' expectation and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, Th' observ'd of all observers, quite, quite down!

In no particular order and at risk of repetition of things already said above: Good looking. Intelligent and articulate when necessary. Slightly goofy in a humorous way at other times. Tough and resilient. Shrewd business woman--seems to have taken on the music business and won. Mentor to...

I have always loved Ralph Towner's playing ever since I first heard him on classical guitar with the Paul Winter Consort. Apparently he did not pick up a 12 string until after he had left the Consort. It was an F-212, which did not prove satisfactory because of its narrow nut width (42 mm) and...

@GAD My brother speaks a fluent [fluently speaks a] dialect of Spanish particular to a South American country where he lived for many years, and he keeps up with Latin American news. This is how he learned about The Warning. In Latin America, they are the headliners. Their concerts sell out...

Gear Rundown

My brother is a sucker for girl groups. He just introduced me to The Warning, a power trio of three sisters from Monteray, Mexico. If you like things in the Halestorm, Metalica, metalish rock genre, you might like them. They seem quite polished and professional and can be quite fierce in...

Do your homework on pricing. Tamura Mitsuru is a very well respected luthier if not as well known as his skills deserve. It will probably be a spruce top. B&S might be cypress.

Thank you for the kind offer. I would prefer to get something that I can try first, though. And getting things to Canada is expensive and problematic. I can order something from the US, shipped USPS with tracking. It will move quickly to the Canadian border, at which point tracking seems to...

Estrada Gomez is/was one of Argentina's foremost luthiers. He made a variety of "classical" guitar styles, including very traditional ones. His used instruments seem to list in the $3K US range, +/- a bit. One of his instruments in this style would have rosewood sides and back with a spruce...

There are two or three instruments of interest listed here currently, a Yamaha CG model, the Guild MkII, and something that purports to be an Estrada Gomez, but isn't. The most interesting is the Estrada Gomez style guitar, which was made by one of Estrada Gomez's disciples/apprentices. All...