Well I remember weeping buckets on my granny's lap as she sang "Alice Blue Gown" (strange kid). When I was 9 or 10 I first heard Louis Armstrong on the radio and that was it for me, I was hooked on jazz, and, after hearing him with Bessie, the blues too. Interest in US folk came with the Weavers and Lonnie D. and UK folk via the Spinners and the Corries, but Louis is still my main man. (My car tape this week has the All-stars on one side and the Ink Spots on the other!)
RtS (positively therapeutic!)