More than  a week later and I am still completely knocked out by the BBC Electric Prom with Robert Plant and The Band of Joy - played the radio version ver and over on i-player and watched the abbreviated TV version last night.  The thing I love about Robert Plant is that he obviously loves lots of the same kinds of music that I do - blues, West Coast psychedelia, North African/Arabic, raw folky Appalachian style "love and death" songs but he manages, now, to interpret them in a completely original way.

Years and years and years ago I bought a sitar.  As I  moved around the  country it got more and more beaten up to the point where everything it needed in order to be played had fallen off.  I bought a new one two years ago but tuning 20 strings is quite a chore!  I can't play guitar - but if I could only ever play one tune on the guitar, and it was "Dargai", the final tune on Richard and Linda Thompson's "Pour Down LIke Silver", I would be satisfied.

Well, this is something I never, ever, imagined myself doing, creating a blog.