But If By Some Freak

Do-so Is More Important Than Say-so.

When You Play The 12-string Guitar,you Spend Half Your Life Tuning The Instrument And The Other Half Playing It Out Of Tune.

I Was 16 When I Came To New York. I Had Graduated To A Tenor Banjo In The School Jazz Band, And It Was Kind Of Boring - Just Chords, Chords, Chords. Then My Father Took Me To A Mountain Music And Dance Festival In Asheville, North Carolina, And There I Saw Relatively Uneducated People Playing Great Music By Ear.

I Keep Reminding People That An Editorial In Rhyme Is Not A Song. A Good Song Makes You Laugh, It Makes You Cry, It Makes You Think.

I Came From An Intellectual Family. Most Were Doctors, Preachers, Teachers, Businessmen. My Grandfather Was A Small Businessman. His Father Was An Abolitionist Doctor, And His Father Was An Immigrant From Germany.