I was taken back about 30 years on Monday night when I heard the tape of Rick singing Victoria--in French no less--popularized by Garolou on their eponymous 1976 album release. Garolou was formed by the Lalonde brothers, Marc and Michel, from Cornwall. Marc and I lived together in Montreal in 1972 after we put together a blues band to play the only hotel in Riviere Baudette on Highway 2 near the Ontario border--"the last hotel in Quebec" as we called it. Marc introduced me to his brother Michel, who was fascinated by the fingerpicking I had picked up from listening to old Dave Van Ronk records in the 60s and demanded that I teach him how to do it. I still remember the smile that spread slowly across his face as he finally got it, his thumb alternating rhythmically on the bass strings while his fingers walked the others. What joy! In the fall of 72 I went to grad school and we retired our blues band, but Marc and Michel went on to great success in the folk idiom with Garolou. I had the chance to play with them two years later when they had teamed up with Steve Merritt and his touring circus wagon in Merritt's Chautauqua project in Alexandria. Great to hear the song again.