Being at my stall most of the weekend, the only recital I got to was
Bruce Molsky's; I'd heard him a couple of years ago.  I didn't like
this one as much: he was more relaxed in the earlier one and told
more stories about what he was playing - this time he seemed to be
trying to cram as many notes in as possible.  He said he was jetlagged/
short of sleep in his intro, and the way his act was put together
sounded like it.

Which I can identify with because I tried to cram far too much into
my talk and ended up dropping large chunks of necessary exposition
near the end... oh well, if you've got the CD-ROM you'll be able to
fill in the missing bits where I was talking about Miss Gordon of
Gight.  (The ones I omitted in a more planned way were an attempt
to get into the mind and musical world of the misogynist weirdo who
wrote the broadsides on Mary McKinnon; a sort of musical equivalent
of serial-killer profiling).


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