Hi Alan, I think we must have posted at the same time, as I missed your post earlier as well. I went and listened to a few samples from Dylan's 'Love and Theft' on here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/samples/B00005NI5Y/ref=dp_nav_0/002-4215151-0042412?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=5174&s=music

...and I heard the 'swing style' you talked about. I have to confess that if I'd heard them without knowing it was Bob, I'd never have guessed it was him. But....having said that...he still didn't appeal to me. The only song of his where I've loved his voice was on 'Lay Lady Lay'....otherwise I've preferred the cover versions.

Oh heavens! I'm completely under the spell of the 'Billboard'

I keep playing it....it's another great way to get people's music out to people like me...'out here' Today I've discovered Anne Lister ....gorgeous mellow voice! And she's singing a lovely song called 'Dante's Church' Here she is:

http://www.annelister.com/

And Dave Rolfe...a fantastic guitarist! Never, ever heard of him before...or Anne above..but now I have! And the track that followed his 'George Brabazon' was 'Over The Hills'...John Tams song, but this time sung by Take Two...and it's excellent! And I click on their website and lo and behold..there is Dave Rolfe again....but this time with Kevin Arnold as well...here they are:

http://www.taketwomusic.co.uk/

....and then I heard Dave playing 'Anji'...perhaps I'm mistaken but the beginning part sounds like a bit of 'Classical Gas' Do you remember that one? And the rest of the tune is..well...just plain WONDERFUL! Yup..there it is again 'Classical Gas'....right at the end as well.

You see..yet once more....WHY have I NEVER heard of this man?

And Hilary James and Simon Mayor! They were playing at Exeter recently, but I had no idea how good they were...I remember seeing their gig photo, where Hilary was playing a Mandobass, which has to be one of the most unusual instruments I've seen! There's a photo of it on Simon's site here, with a link through to Hilary's site as well:

http://www.mandolin.co.uk/

..and they used to present BBC Radio For Schools for six years, so I read somewhere else.

AND....I think I'm falling for Keith Kendrick too! There is just no end to all this is there...S'wonderful! He sounds like a FOURTH member of Coope Boyes & Simpson. Oh dear me....I shall have to go and sit quietly in a darkened room to recover from all this shortly!

Ay Up Me Duck! ;0)

And Duncan McFarlane's brilliant 'Can't Go There' is only 8 tracks away now!!....and I haven't even BEGUN to tell you about Ron Trueman-Border yet have I?


Lizzie :0)