[The Rez]

*Influence* runs both ways in any Creative Art - particularly in formative years. Truth be told, it runs every-which-way. It ain't stricly Linear.

There is indeed a *Lineage* [The Begats, if you will] in Music History, but everyone borrowed from everyone else Were you to attempt a diagram, it would contain more intersecting confusion than an *Inside the DC Belway Political Roadmap*

That's my opinion why The Hive - this massive collective I call The Music - holds so many hues and catagories and sub-hues and sub-catagores, and so on. Many of the catagories use so many hypenates, there should be Most-Hyphenated-Music-Style sub-catagory.

In the midst of what appears to be chaos [but isn't] emerge certain people who defy *The Box* critics and consumers try to stuff 'em in. Such is Gord. Same-same Ol' Marty Robbins, in his fashion. In each you see both the *Spark* and the sheer *Craftsmanship* to harness Energy.

Wanna hear the best GordSong ever written by Mary Robbins?

*The Alamo*

For me, it's not the singer's vibrato, the band's instrumentation or Ballad Form
[in it's story narritive meaning] . . . it's The Passion.

I see it shivver in *The Last Time I Saw Her Face* and *My Woman, My Woman,
My Wife* [subject irrelavant]

Who Influenced Who More? No Brainer . . . EACH.


Now what was the name of that Sawyer Brown record that sounded just like a GordSong?

Rez