tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029129453140655773.post6252011051845678782..comments2023-04-27T10:09:48.888-05:00Comments on The Unintentional Expert: A trip down memory laneUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029129453140655773.post-82911387106372309132012-08-30T10:20:04.326-05:002012-08-30T10:20:04.326-05:00I wish you could have had one more as well...I wish you could have had one more as well...John Sladehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07463373735483306610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029129453140655773.post-80537335472873008732012-08-26T20:04:25.665-05:002012-08-26T20:04:25.665-05:00Thank you both for sharing your stories. I can fee...Thank you both for sharing your stories. I can feel the tears on the periphery, but I am smiling. I wish I could hear him play, see him smile, hear his laugh...any of those things. All the little things we usually take for granted.Amy Burgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14618171188220600950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029129453140655773.post-44964694441239356692012-08-26T14:37:25.634-05:002012-08-26T14:37:25.634-05:00Has anybody else noticed a remarkable resemblance ...Has anybody else noticed a remarkable resemblance between Michael and Dan Tyminski?<br /><br />(For those who don't know, Tyminski did the vocal on "Man of Constant Sorrow" in the "O Brother, Where Art thou?" movie. He doesn't appear.) Dave Mathenyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06335493583595929626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029129453140655773.post-90763939160794703812012-08-26T13:19:27.395-05:002012-08-26T13:19:27.395-05:00When the tears well up -- well, almost anything co...When the tears well up -- well, almost anything could do it for me, but most of all it's music. <br /><br />Last winter I was over at Michael's house doing something with the shelves, and I recalled having just stumbled across a particularly beautiful Turlough O'Carolann tune called "Blind Mary" on Youtube. I asked him if knew it or had heard it. <br /><br />"I KNOW it," he said. <br /><br />He was sitting in his room full of guitars and reached out for one. He then played it -- simply and with understanding. When he was done he looked up and we just grinned at each other. <br /><br />It's a pity I don't have a copy of him playing it, but the video that inspired it, so to speak, is here: <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmUfITX1FQ8Dave Mathenyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06335493583595929626noreply@blogger.com