When my sideman David and I performed with our guitars about fifteenish years ago, David was a single man and I was wildly head over heels crazy in love with my wife, who loved me right back more.
We played lots of crowds and met a lot of people. Each time I saw an attractive lady about our age in the crowd beside some old World War Two hero in his military baseball cap in a wheel chair, I would stand back and let David up front with his Martin HD28, while I crooned into the microphone Hank Snow style At Mail Call Today
I knew that old veteran had heard Axis Sally or Tokyo Rose play that and you could see the tears well up in him, and he’d be sure to introduce his little girl, to David.
Hank Snow was born Canadian but he’s one of the best American crooners.