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I've been playing in so many different bands/venues/styles lately that it got me re-tracing whatever my guitar point seemed to be, once I had the urge to form one. This led me to a worn canvas bag of blood sweat and tears packed with The Ancient Set Lists. There was my guitar history in a nut shell, if the pun fits, wear it... From my folky upstart of Linda Ronstadt/Emmylou Harris/Bob Dylan to my tip-bumping Jimmy Buffett/Grateful Dead/Rickie Lee Jones to my classic rock binge (badly timed 2 years before the real one hit..which we are still glommed up in somehow...I swear ..one more Bohemian Rhapsody and I'm gonna blow....) Then my students were all punkin out so I had to get a loud amp and play CBGBs a few times...then I got a Rotovibe and went all bluesy...then the blues society went into civil war and I went eclectic, for lack of a better word. All the while I'm herding the acousticats thru the Cape Fear Folk Festivals. Then 2 weird things happened...First, I took what seemed to be a guitar teaching job for at-risk youth, and ended up submerged for years in hiphop production and computer music. Gotta thank RogerDodger for that one! Then, I was asked to play some guitar behind a Greenville duo that re-introduced me to the women's music scene, which I had abandoned years before, but obviously still had some unfinished biz with! Looking over the set lists of gig past, I'm struck by the notion of making some I-mixes of these shows. Some of those were works of art! I vow to put extra effort into the upcoming sets and we will have some surprises for ya in Durham for sure!!
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