I loved Lonnie, and his music, his showmanship and his professionalism, his taste, his choice of music (pretty much everything) and thank heaven his longevity.
I cannot explain why I do, but I suspect that he was a MAJOR influence on my own musical tastes, i.e. everything.
And if that's the Chris Newman up there that I suspect it is, welcome to Mudcat, and I was just listening to your (and Máire's) CD Out Of Court this afternoon. Brilliant stuff.
Now back to the LD thread.

Seamus