Hi Diane

I'd like to return to what someone (who was at least investigating the earlier output of this year's FA contenders) mentioned about Jim Moray's April Morning on YouTube. .........

Thanks for the info. Guess I might have been a little harsh. Perhaps on that particular track I felt let down because it started so clean and crisp with just his voice and that lovely guitar.

I have a penchant for simplicity, especially re certain types of song. I was quite excited at first listen because the only version of April Morning I've heard is by Folly Bridge. (I am still very new to this music scene). Though the FB harmony is fun, JM's version (at the beginning) was thrilling because of the purity. I cannot help that the entire arrangement is not to my taste. But I am impressed at how it was arrived at. Thank you for sharing that information with me.

I beleive my daugher Andie would have loved the whole piece and I daresay much of his work. She would be still young enough and was musically trained (majored in vocal performance, minored in music education at uni) to appreciate all the fine points, lost on an ignorant old lady like me.

Maybe someday, when time and money and health permit, I will be able to see JM live.

Regards

Tam