Re: GL on the radio!!!
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Originally Posted by mandoann
This is great! Thank you, Sir John! 
BTW, Sir John, did I not meet you in Toronto at the Thursday jam and later at the Elephant and Castle?
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Yes Ann you did
I had noticed you sitting quietly and lonelily by yourself near our table in McVeighs Pub and made a point of talking to you when you explained why you chose your moniker.I think I told you that Melissa Joe from Austin TX who posts here very occasionalluy is also a Mandolinist, (she entertained us on it at Valerie Magees house in Saratoga Springs after one of the Caffe Lena concerts probably the 2003 one
I am replying now to my thread because I have just checked a hotmail account that I rarely check and found several emails from last April from Pandora radio so I must have registered with them using that email account.
One old email invited me to listen to what is now playing on Gordon Lightfoot radio:-
(it was Song For A Winter's Night from the Songbook box set)
there was a menu button
one item of which was
"why was this song selected"
I very much liked the answer:-
(I couldn't have said it better myself
even if I am unsure what
"a vocal-centric Aeshthetic" is but it sure sounds appropriate for our Jongleur)
(a word used by the otherTJ in the description to one of his vistories)
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"Sir" John Fowles Bt
Honorary Curator Bootleg Museum 
(where Sir does not signify that I am a fully benighted Knight just a Bt which signifies a humble Baronet -?? read the wiki!)
I meant no one no harm Once inside we found a curious moonbeam Doing dances on the floor
Last edited by johnfowles; 11-21-2008 at 12:51 PM.
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