I was raised on country music, and went over to Buryl Ives,and the Weavers etc. Back in 1959, I was in the state patrol boat EXPLORER tied up in Camden harbor alongside the ALICE WENTWORTH. In order to get to the Explorer, we had to cross over the Wentworth. One day while crossing the Wentworth, there was a young man sitting on a hatch cover, bare foot, playing an old Harmony guitar. It stopped me in my tracks because I had never heard such beautiful music before. Never knew a guitar could sound like that. The player turned out to be Gordon Bok, whom I had never heard of before, but we became instant best friends, and even after all these years he never fails to impress me with his music.
I don't know that I have ever been "blown away" by music, but that day I had to take a reef in my topssil.