The title of this page is in honour of Leon Thomas’ spectacular album of the same name. Stories on this page are about musicians, music and their lives with some musical history and theory thrown in.
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Beau could really play guitar.
Maybe not like Paul Geremia, but he was the best I ever heard in the decent-sized suburb of the large-sized west coast city I live in.
I met him at a Saturday jam session in the basement of a local church. He was sitting on a
wooden folding chair playing some crazy Celtic stuff in DADGAD on an old Martin parlour,
fingerpicking like I’d never seen.
Then he turned a couple of the pegs, pulled a bottleneck from his shirt pocket and started
playing Charlie Patton.
“God damn”, I whistled just as the Reverend walked up beside me.
