Family and friends. Music of all sorts but mainly Country and Bluegrass plus good Rhythm and Blues, Soul and Jazz. What's Good? - Whatever I enjoy really.Reading. I watch a lot of television ( probably too much ). I still have a love for the horses and our two dogs - " Fern" and Winnie" ( known as " Whiffer" for reasons I won't go into).
Many old friends with whom we have lost touch. I would also like to meet some friends I have made on the internet who have been very kind and generous to me.If I could travel through time I would like to meet Charles Dickens.
I played banjo with the "Radio Cowboys" bluegrass band. I listen to Bill Monroe, Tim O'Brien, Mollie O'Brien, the Lilly Brothers, REBEL Records, Jim and Jesse, Del McCoury band, Jim Rooney, Roland White, Bill Keith, Hot Rize, Kevin Barnes, Robert Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders,Ruby Turner, Bonnie Raitt,Les and Earl, any band with Mike Bub or Ernie Sykes in it, Dick Smith, Clarence White,Frank Crumit, Little Roy Lewis,Chuck Berry, Roy Lee Centers, Paul Brewster, Butch Baldassari, David Grier, John D Loudermilk, Scott Nygaard, Casey Driessen, JD Crowe, Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum, Buddy Emmons, the Dixie Chicks, Charlie Christian, John James, Pete Berryman,Zoot Money, Butch Robins, Ronnie Bowman, Iris Dement, Johnny and Jack, Red Allen, Harley Allen, Debbie Nims, Larry Rice, Benny Goodman, Ronnie McCoury, Doug Jernigan, Little Richard, Darrell Scott, Larry Sparks, the Beatles, Hoagy Carmichael, Django, Chris Jones, Jason Carter, Herschel Sizemore, Paul Desmond, John Prine, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Mike Montgomery, Andrea Zonn, Rob McCoury, Lionel Hampton, Pat Alger, Gene Libbea, the Lovin' Spoonful, Alison Brown, Steve Goodman, John Doyle , Hot Club of Cowtown ( now Whit Smith's Hot Jazz Caravan), Sean Doyle, the Everly Bros, Mairtin O'Connor, Mick McAuley, Mark Schatz, JS Bach, Chet Atkins, Hank, Terry Eldredge, George Jones, Lefty, Hag, La Bottine Sourriant, Altan, most of the old time Bluegrass players and many more.
The Maltese Falcon, the Big Sleep, Rififi, and other older thrillers, Broadway Danny Rose plus any Woody Allen, Marx Bros, Fargo, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, The Usual Suspects, Bullitt, the Magnificent Seven, Delicatessen.
Documentaries, with a preference for musical or political subjects. Comedy, Dad's Army, the Office, Dinner Ladies. Police drama , Morse etc. I enjoy American humour too - Third Rock from the Sun, Evening Shade, Mash, Cheers , and going back a bit - Jack Benny and George Burns and Gracie Allen.
Anything by or about Dickens. Victorian poetry. Biographies of all sorts. James Lee Burke's " Dave Robicheaux" stories.John Le Carre. Anything by Bill Bryson. Country/Bluegrass history books especially those with a lot of photo's of the artists.
Nurses and Ambulance drivers, Firemen, Policemen,Jeremy Hindley, Pete Sayers,Jim Rooney, Bill Keith, Stan Rahn,Everett Lilly, Martin Luther King, Mohammed Ali, Lester Piggott, Terry Biddlecombe, Fred Winter, Tommy Johnston,Zoot Money