Time, simply time. I have yet to a see really good player (and Bonnie will be a REALLY good player) progress on an even upward plane. It goes in plateaus. Before each plateau is reached there's one hell of a lot of frustration......and then....EUREKA!

About a year after I started playing, rather than carrying on in a general way, I decided that the style of Leadbelly would give me great satisfaction. Man, did I ever focus! I never realized how PHYSICALLY hard it would be. The idea of building up muscles simply to play 12 string guitar would never have entered my head at that point, but it was neccessary just to hold the heavy guage strings down. A few years later at a party here in Toronto Sonny Terry (I was chauffeuring he and Brownie from the club to the gig) said after I played (didn't sing!!) some Leadbelly music, "Hmmm, seems like Ol' Huddie's in the room". For me, that was it! I could have died right then and there. Maybe he was just being nice...but I don't think so. I'd worked my ass off just for a moment like that.

It'll come Bon

Rick