The musician was phenomenal this afternoon. One guy was playing a double neck guitar / bass combo with a looping phrase sampler and drum machine. I’ll digress for a moment becuse this is pretty cool – If you don’t know, the sampler allows a musician to record (capture) parts of a song (rhythm guitar, backing vocals, other riffs) in real-time, then call them up and accompany them at other times during the same song. For example, he records the rhythm track then plays a solo over it or sings a chorus then sings a harmony to the first and so on. At any rate, this gave him a lot of flexibility over what he played and, most importantly, how it sounded to us. To the point of my post – he knew his chops and landed some phenomenal covers of some great, great – and in some cases – rather obscure - material…all of which I’m now pulling down to my new Zune. Uncle Kracker, Hootie and the Blowfish, Freddy King, The Ventures, Van Morrison, and  – an all time fave – a few tracks from Paul Simon’s Graceland. Great stuff! If interested, check them out – the links take you over to Bing Songs.