I have been listening again to my tapes of Isaac, and the wonderful thing about him was how astoundingly masterful he was in ANY idiom.

I mean, he could flatpick an Appalachian breakdown at finger-scorching speed, every note clean, and then play a finger style jazz piece with chords you never heard of, and it was all just so RIGHT.

Then he would back a singer like Elkie Brooks with such taste and panache. Plus he wrote really neat songs and sung like an angel.

There was a thread on Mudcat some time ago about the most versatile guitarist, well the bad news is he just died recently.

Murray