I was reading through this post yesterday (Wednesday), but didn't get round to adding to it, just distilling the comments and my own feelings down to one choice --- Guy Clark. In terms of story-telling, melody and feel for a song he's been my hero since before I even knew that I could write songs. So then last night I was doing my compere thing at Roots@Zak's where Liz Simcock was the night's main attraction (Click here to see and hear more). Suffice to say that she's a damn fine singer/songwriter/guitarist herself. Anyway, I'd started the evening with a couple of my own songs, and at the end of the night Liz told me how much she liked my songs and said "I don't know if you've ever heard of Guy Clarke, but you remind me a lot of him". Wow! What a compliment -- it made what was already a great night even better. (Sorry for blowing my own trumpet, but I just needed to share it with people who'd know what I was talking about!)

BJ