"...it suddenly occurred to me that a kid from Indiana, years younger than I was, had just pulled it out of the air one day. And I still haven't gotten over that heartbreak...

Ha! Ain't that the truth. I've gone youTube crazy for the past few years (since I finally got DSL) and I stumbled upon a barely twenties James Taylor playing his recently penned "Carolina In My Mind". Blew my mind is what it did.

Stardust is simply astounding from any angle. I like to piece together arrangements by ear. I was messing around with another song -- couldn't even tell you what it was now -- and I stumbled on a chord -- X3X332 (obviously moveable). I don't know if it was something I played wrong for what I was playing at the time...

...but I stopped dead. I knew that chord in a different context. I didn't stop until I had figured out a passably good Stardust -- pretty much the way I still play it today, with that chord in two places (different frets).

Carmichael makes me proud to be a Hoosier.