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Krauss, Plant and Emmylou were all on "Later with Jules Holland" this week on the BBC. You can catch it on BBC I Player if you have it - only 7 more hours to go, so you would need to be quick.

You can get it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/

You could also sneak a peek at "Ceird an Ceoil" which is an excellent  series on instruments in Irish music which is also on I Player. It has English sub-titles for non-Irish speakers like myself.

"Anytime you're ready for it!  Just make sure that you've had a lot to drink before we start and can't see straight or have any balance to speak of because I really need all the advantage I can get. "

Sounds good to me! We should of course appoint seconds who will have to be in a similar inebriated condition. Any takers ?

Guitar Doc - actually the gallic is a varient of the Irish spoken in North East Ulster. The Kings of Dal Riada, known as the Scotti, spread from Antrim to Inverness, I imagine they took their good looks with them as well as their propensity to drink and hairy knees.

Kenneth McAlpine, first King of Scotland ( if I remember correctly ) was descended from this line of Irish Kings. Interestingly the Stone of Scone on which the Kings of England sit to be crowned was originally McAlpine's coronation stone and came originally from Ireland. We are not asking for it back, by the way.

U-Y-KILT

Well done for such an even-handed approach to a controversial subject!

The oldest whiskey in the world is reputed to be Bushmills, an Irish whiskey that is celebrating 400 years of whiskey making from the same water - this very year. King Kames 1 provided the original licence to distil in 1608. As usual, however I'm sure the authorities only caught on late to a flourishing local industry. Why not help us celebrate it's birthday?

It is made here in Northern Ireland in a small village that looks out onto the wild North Atlantic. Just a few months ago, Bushmills twinned with Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville has a population of 256,231 compared to the 1,319 inhabitants of Bushmills.

I like a Jim Beam - white - but my main wet is the Bushmills Original. Of course you could try making your own ( http://www.homedistiller.org/ ) which is illegal in most parts of the world.

As for who invented distilling, I assume it was some poor chinese guy who failed to get his patent in on time. We should have a "World Whiskey Guy" day to honour him - we'd have to be sure to spell it right, of course ! We could have an international festival of Irish, Scottish and American songs about whiskey.

And you could try this Sister Rosetta one for size as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeaBNAXf … re=related

We are all hot and bothered aren't we!

To be honest, I found Virginia's comments valuable and reflected what trained singers have said to me. I also get the impression that the breathing exercises that everyone is getting exercised about are one and the same, it's just that Virginia prefers to vocalise when performing them.

Surely we must be "slow to chide and swift to bless", as the old drunk at the bottom of the street said before he became a pastor.

And long may you stick around !

This feels like a prequel to the poignant and beautiful "Whiskey Lullabye". The last last line of the first verse is certainly evocative of it. The song has real resonance.

"and without the clash, you would have had a different SLF."

Ahh, I remember hearing SLF for the first time - Alternative Ulster , Barbed Wire Love . . . choice memories of bad times in Belfast !

Your fingers will cry, but your guitar will sing - if you keep practicing. It's amazing what you can do if you are persistent.

My daughter had been learning a few weeks and had a few chords. She made up a song with two of those chords and invited her friends around to form a band! To get around the chord changing problem she showed one of her mates ( who couldn't play at all!) how to play a D on one guitar and she took the other chord on another guitar. When a D was needed her mate would play and when a G was needed she would play.

It actually sounded really good - but, then as a parent, I'm biased.

On Electric

1. Freddy King
2. BB King
3. Clapton
4. Hendrix
5. Peter Green

On Acoustic

1. Davey Graham
2. Doc Watson
3. Clarence White
4. Robert Johnston (!)
5. Tut Taylor ( You have to check this guy out - see http://webpages.charter.net/tutbro/ )

Scotland was robbed !

Mind you our wee country - Norn Iron - are still in by the skin of someone-else's teeth. Roll on Spain on Wednesday.

Well done, Jerome!

It took me years of working out and getting things wrong to get what you just posted.

Isn't the web is just wonderful! I learnt about pentatonics from crumpled photocopies ( does anyone remember the shiny paper they used to come on !) of articles in music mags back in the seventies. They were passed from learner to learner during the "boom" in guitar playing during the punk years. We'd copy them out and practice till our finger tips glowed.