You know how many songs he (John Dwyer) collected and he taped EVERYTHING. And then there were the reel-to-reel tapes I found in his storeroom that were marked to tape over - of course he didn't so I'll have those as resources also. And lots of notations and books and photocopies and . . .

Yeah. It is a big job. There is a lot of overlap between the two of you and the other artists included in your collection to build from. I agree, by the way, with your summary that his guitar playing was adequate - it was always in service of the song, he didn't play guitar in order to just play guitar. Over the years he collected a lot of other instruments (they went hither and yon with siblings after he died) but I think they were more for the having for people to use than for him to learn. He had bad arthritis so wasn't able to play guitar for many years and I wasn't in the Northwest when we was buying new instruments. Others will have to report (or I'll find evidence in his tapes) if he ever used other instruments.

The only correction I would offer is that while he lived briefly at Mission Beach and Potlatch, he spent over 25 years in the house on the beach at Priest Point, still on the Rez, but a separate community from the others.

Maggie