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MikeofNorthumbria Mid-Atlantic (accent) ~~ Why? (237* d) RE: Mid-Atlantic (accent) ~~ Why? 25 Jan 11

Gerry Lockran was one of the best blues singers and guitarists I've ever heard performing live. I first heard him at the Surbiton folk club, where he was a resident in the early '60s,(along with Derek Sargent, Jack Parkinson, Arthur Johnson and Mick Wells). Soon afterwards I poersuaded our university folk club to book him, and he had a tremendous impact there - especially with the ladies!

BTW, in those days he spelt his surname "Loughran" and pronounced it "Luffran"- I believe he changed it because continental Europeans found the original version difficult to deal with, and in later years he got most of his work over there.

And incidentally,Gerry told me that one of his parents was Irish and the other Indian - so what kind of accent do the folk purists think he should have been singing in?   

Wassail!

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