The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #104927   Message #2154810
Posted By: Mick Tems
22-Sep-07 - 05:59 AM
Thread Name: Whatever happened to the great John Jame
Subject: RE: Whatever happened to the great John James
Carolina Shout (John and Eddie) were breathtakingly brilliant when they came to Llantrisant Folk Club, just bubbling over with humour, high-voltage energy and sheer musicianship. The last I heard of John, he had gone back to West Wales (Lampeter?), where he was starting to introduce some beautiful Welsh tunes into his repertoire. John is a superb master guitarist with a very weird sense of humour; I know how effsee feels, because John's humour could be very insulting at times. But I'd travel a long, long way just to see him play - and I have a stunning bootleg tape, over 30 years old, of John at Swansea University, too!