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Pleasantly aging semi-radical free thinking curmudgeon, musician & writer finally finds his true & right artistic partner and they both get it together in their first home in the Hills of the Finger Lakes
59 this year, happily married, great SECURE job (essential personnel) with fantastic benefits (free dental vision & hearing aids), still listening deeply to all kinds of music, collecting music (MP3s thse days...1 TB plus and counting...everything from a recording from 1855 to Cliff Edwards ukelele stylings, early Hawaiian and steel guitar classics, hillbilly music from 1890s to 1950s, current mashups, rare 60s and 70s rock and singer songwriters and Americana pioneers, rare R&B from 1940s to 1970s, bootleg live recordings from 1960s on, rare Beatles, STONES, Neil young, Dylan, Hendrix, Americana, new crazies like Ray Wylie Hubbard, Robbie Fulks, Todd Snider, Eddie Lawrence, Hayes Carll, David Olney, Malcomb Holcombe, Fleet Foxes, almost anything featured in Oxford America Music Issue or No Depression or on World Cafe or E-Town or Mountain Stage or Garrison Keillor's Show