There hasn't been a moment that I can't remember loving music. (Pardon the double negative.) When I was really young (5 or 6), my parents signed up for a monthly club subscription of children's music records, which I played on an old portable mono record player. Later, I sang in school and church choirs and when, at the age of 12, I showed some interest in a toy ukelele my sister, Roz, had gotten for her 10th birthday, my grandfather went to Sears and bought me a Silvertone f-hole six string guitar, probably the best guitar he could find. I thought he was a god.

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