专辑简介

It was The Beatles' fault. They came along when bar mitzvah lessons had ceased, making room for music lessons, and demonstrated how to make girls scream. They made a different kind of music, with neat baroque chords and words that mattered. They first made the English really cool to me. My dad had set me up to be receptive to their message, bringing me to his favorite Greenwich Village haunts, with coffee and guitars and other folks who spoke words that mattered. My first guitar teacher, Bream-devotee David Harris, sprang from that same milieu, and instilled an appreciation for those modes not found in doo-wop and blues. Soon I was playing Scarlatti and thumbing through the more obscure record bins on 8th St and in the Folklore Center. And it was those special records that brought me to England a few years later. But the line was a fairly straight one.