Introduction:

Having been unable to play a guitar, I did learn in adolescence to play a range of folksy tunes on harmonicas. In more recent years, I have enjoyed plinking out by ear, the same tunes on an electronic keyboard. As much as I would love to master it, I remain a few reincarnations away from playing Ravel’s ‘Concerto for the Left hand in D Major’ …

As a listener, my interest in new music has sadly withered over the last few decades. Like many old folks, my musical tastes have almost fossilized: typically, much of my favourite music remains that which I first listened to in adolescence. 

I have sometimes recorded responses to songs and musicians in journal entries through the years. 

The first such reflection posted here, deals with my uneasy relationship with country music of the ‘40s-‘70s. That is followed by a series of reflections on tunes from an insanely random range of genres… 

–FWT (lefthook51)

April 2020

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