Re: Was Neil Diamond Right?
Personally, I felt that one of the joys of taking up mandolin in my sixties was that I didn't have to aim for brilliance -- it's too late for that anyway -- I could aim for competence instead. (I too am of the Popeye philosophical school.)
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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