photo: Dean Chalkley
One of the benefits age is hindsight. From my ancient vantage point, I can look back and survey all of the twists and turns my musical tastes have taken over the years. Some of my departures may have appeared as radical tangents or even defections at the time, but if you stand this far back and zoom out, the jagged zig zags of my detours become mere points along a long curve. The story of my musical learning curve is probably not much different to a lot of people searching for new music outside the mainstream in the days before the internet. Looking back, I can clearly see where a British man of West Indian descent named Don Letts has both consciously and subconsciously affected the trajectory of my musical consumption. If you are reading this, Don Letts has most likely had some of effect on yours as well.
