I'm back. I played your song at the Red Roof Studio tonight, just a few miles from here, and gave it my very best and it was well received. Managed to get through it without mistakes. It's a very nice song to play, works great, nice chord changes and melody, and it sounds wonderful in the dropped D tuning, which I gather is how you are doing it?

Boy, now I've got to see if I can learn some of the other songs on the CD too. I'm going to keep on playing "I'm at the Mercy of Your Smile" and make it a regular feature in my sets, cause it is too good a song to just do now and then. And I will always make sure people know it's a Bruce Murdoch song.

Now, there's a man you might remember who comes out to these things at the Red Roof. His name is Mike Cavendish. He used to run the Village Corner Coffeehouse in Toronto in the very early 60s. He said he went to a show at Le Hibou Coffeehouse in Montreal in the early 60s...the Greenbriar Boys were playing...and he said he remembers you being there on that night and that he'd seen you here and there back in those days. Do you remember him? He's a really tall man of about 76, was a good boxer in his youth, must've been a strapping fellow back then.

Mike is an interesting man with many anecdotes about the folk scene in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.