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There Must Be Another song
My favourite guitar is my 1954
Martin 00-18, and I play it on this song. It’s the
one I mostly go to when I’m writing and it has given
me many songs. Sometimes when composing it seems it’s
really the guitar that’s doing all the creative work.
A good friend of mine cared for and repaired this guitar
for me for many years. I had him over to dinner one night
and he talked about his life in music and the people he
had crossed paths with, worked for, or played with over
the years (including Lenny Breau and Gordon Lightfoot.).
When he left around midnight I sat down to write a song
based on what he had told me, but as I started, the song
seemed to want to write itself and suddenly I realized it
wasn’t about him at all anymore but this “other”
story came out. Since he had been the original inspiration
for the song, I wanted him to be the first to hear it anyway
and sent a rough recording to him the next morning. He sent
me a message back …asking how I could have known that
story. - Lennie
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