My compliments to you,once again, S.C. for your North Country Primitive site. Keep up the good work. I found that wide-ranging interview you linked to with Stefan Grossman utterly fascinating. I have a lot of those Kicking Mule LP's with tab books and learned so many tunes out of them. If not for Grossman a lot of us here in the U.S. might never have heard of great European players like John James, Ton Van Bergeyk, Leo Winjkamp etc. I was sort of amused to hear that Stefan spliced and edited some of those ragtime numbers performed by Van Bergeyk and Winjkamp. I learned some of those rags and worked very hard to get all the way through them with minimal mistakes. c
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