Hi Sally...Oops, I mean Mrs. Lemon (I don't know you well enough to be that informal!!)

Back in the ancient days of history, I thought very seriously of changing my name. Somehow "Richard Fielding" just sounded like some dull Barrister or accountant, and no matter how many variations I used with the first name (Dick, Rich, Rick, Ricky, even Eric) it still sucked. Someone suggested I go with "Dickie Fielding," but it struck me that with that monicker, I'd need a wooden dummy along with the guitar

"IT's Dickie Fielding and his little buddy "Woodie"!

I considered (honestly) "Kent St.Clair", but I'm not gay so I dropped that one quickly. I loved and played a lot of blues, so I thought about nicknames like "Papa", "Ramblin", and "Hard Luck". No way though. "Papa" sounds like you're braggin' about your sexual prowess, and I was a little too average for that......."Ramblin" implies you do a lot of hitch-hikin' and sleeping rough, but I've been driving a car since the age of 16, so that seemed a bit pretentious. Now "Hard Luck" Fielding would have been all right, except that eventually people would have discovered that my parents sent me to a Private (in Britain, 'public') school for 'discipline' reasons, and that I've never missed a meal in my life!

Nope.....always figured that folks like Gordon Lightfoot, Patsy Cline, and Dolly Parton just got lucky with their names.

How 'bout considering OTHER fruits and vegetables?

Sally Avocado

Sally Lime (sounds spy-like!)

Sally Carrot (don't you folks have a comedian named "carrot"?)

Cheers, and have fun

Rick