Just thought I'd introduce myself. I'm Ian Angus, and I host "Let the Good Times Roll," the blues show which is on CIUT (Toronto 89.5-FM) immediately before Rick Fielding's Acoustic Workshop. So if you tune in on the Internet at 8pm eastern time (www.ciut.utoronto.ca) you get an hour of blues followed by an hour of folkish music.

I've been involved with roots music in one way or another since I saw Logan English perform Woody Guthrie songs at the long-gone l'Hibou coffee house in Ottawa in about 1961. Shortly after that I saw Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and then The Greenbriar Boys at the same venue, and have been a folk/bluegrass/blues person ever since.

I had ambitions to be a folksinger, and sang at a lot of Canadian antiwar rallies and socialist meetings in the sixties. I knew every song Bill Fredericks (I bet no one remembers him!) and Phil Ochs wrote by heart. But my careers was cut short by a distinct lack of talent.

So now I'm on the Board of the Toronto Blues Society, and I play CDs on the radio and nurse an enduring admiration for and jealousy of everyone who can carry a tune.

(And I know all kinds of things about Rick & Duckboots, so watch out!)

Looking forward to participating in the Mudcat Cafe.

Ian Angus
http://www.letthegoodtimesroll.com