Welcome to the Premier League show. Back again to the scores. More football image ever news. Talking about Everton, Everton went to Spares on Monday and were beaten 5-0. I believe so. We won't talk much about that. Harry Kane was involved in the goals, was involved in more than a couple, but he scored a couple himself and was fantastic in general. The last fan standing has been talking about whether he's overrated. We'll tell you what we think after this clip.  If he wasn't good, he would have scored goals. I think he has improved his game with his sister as well. But there is that little doubt about him. That was at the Euros of the World Cup, should have played in Stirling. We go through and the greediness side of him means he wants to be the glory man all the time. He ends up, we get knocked out. But I don't think you can deny what you said there. A great goal scorer. I'm not even going to have that conversation. He's no where near in the class of Thierry Omri. That's crazy, of course he is. No, no, no. He hasn't got the tools. He hasn't got the tools. Sorry, bro. I'll be one of these guys that has argued against Thierry Omri all my life in the school playground. Thierry Omri put the fear of God into everybody going. Harry Kane, yes. But if it comes up against the Unifinal, I don't think he's that scared. Mr Letial just wasn't very forgiving of Harry Kane there. Was he from an incident that happened just under four years ago?    Harry Kane, for me, is not overrated. He's not. He's a fantastic footballer. He's someone who, when he broke through, I looked at him and thought, I'm not sure. He's not got a trick. He's not got any real peace about him. He's not particularly great near. Can he do it? And what a footballer he's been since. He's just got better and better and better every single year. He's even changed, hasn't he, so much. Very much a back to goal striker at the start, but scored great goals. And then now, last few years, so intelligent dropping in. Passing on week, we obviously showed us the other night, you know, with two different goals, but two very, very good goals. Yeah, it's different class, isn't it? You know, as strikers go, you know, he's one of the best strikers in the Premier League. He's one of the best strikers in the world. I still think he's behind Lewandowski, just as an all-round striker. Well, he's just fantastic. In the last couple of months, he's started to find that form again. That sort of went missing at the beginning of the season. And, you know, coming into the season, obviously, coming off the Euros, not getting the move to City, will have affected him, of course. If he really had set up for a new move, a new club and a new, you know, different things, playing champions, league and all this kind of thing. Mentally, I think that would affect him massively. Practically saying you could buy a football club and then having to come back for it with his tail and his legs. So he's got back into it. I think Conti coming in has changed him for the better. And he's just an outstanding player. I don't think he's overrated at all. You want your strikers to have that selfish streak, but also, you know, to have something that happened four years ago, or whatever, it's just nonsense because he's grown as a player since then. So he's actually, you know, maybe if that was today, he might make that pass or he might be able to finish it better. So I don't think he's overrated. Don't get me wrong, I don't think he's as good as Therion Ray. Therion Ray was unbelievable. Just unbelievable. The kind of player that you don't see too many of about I think the closest you've got to him in the way that the moment is in Bapae, he's a stonem player. Just in the way. Don't get me wrong, player is like a salad and unbelievable, but just in the way he does things. But Cain is, it's a weird one with Cain as well because you do look at it and think, you know, you're looking him coming back into that form and think, sure he's got it, sure he's got it. I'm not saying he needs to move, that's up to him now. He's gone through all that. But as good as he is, he's not going to get space into the Champions League. I don't believe anyway. And he's not going to get the trophies that his level deserves.  At least he got one Premier League trophy, so he can always have that, can he? Cain's got to be very careful that he doesn't finish his career without a trophy. I think it's dead interesting, isn't it? Because obviously we know what our club's talked about with anyone who's any good, has to move. And I wouldn't sit here and try and do the same to Spears and Harry Cain, but he had mentally checked out in the summer from there. He obviously had the disappointment of losing the Euros, the final, and then the move did not happen to City and he took a while to go. He has talked about how ambitious he is, he's 29 now. Spears, with all due respect. Spears could get in the trophy this season, but they're bad, isn't it? There's other teams that got games, you know, but they're right, isn't it? Do you think that's enough for his level of football? No, because I don't think... I don't think, even if they get in, I don't think they can win it next season unless they spend crazy money. And then they're still way behind. I like to Liverpool and City and Chelsea in terms of that European thing. There is a chance, because teams do win it when you don't expect them to come, but that Spears team you look at is far away, I would say, from winning the Premier League and winning the Champions League, so for him. Because I'm not convinced country will stay. Just the way he is, doing well. If you get in the Champions League, he might stay next season. I don't know whether Levy and Tottenham give him the money and the reserves that he wants. That's better if he never ever win the Premier League. No, no. Never ever win the Champions League. He'd have to change, but... So for him, it depends, doesn't he? Does he end up Mat Latysiau and stay at Spears all his career and maybe not win anything? And just go, well, I was a really good footballer. I scored goals and I played for a club. Do you think then, if he doesn't move, do you think he'll be judged? He'll never be judged as a top player because he didn't win a trophy and he didn't test himself at a club. That is on the verge of winning something. I think some people will judge that. I won't. I'd look at him and think, what a fantastic footballer. Alan Shearer was incredible, for Newcastle, he won nothing for Newcastle. He'd done nothing. You know, he won like you said, he won the league very early on with Black Bay but that was him, he didn't do anything else there. Then he went to Newcastle and he should have gone to United and won all sorts of figures but he went to the club he supported and he was a fantastic footballer. He looked at people like Les Ferdman, he was brilliant but never won anything. Great strikers in the Premier League era. Harry Kane is good enough to play for Manchester City and win trophies, Premier Leagues. I guess some people will ultimately look at him and go, he never won the Champions League and he never won the Premier League. He was a good player but he wasn't one of the best players. The reality is he's an unbelievable centre forward. If he went to Real Madrid or he went to Brian Munich he would win stuff and they would win the league but like you said before, I don't want to be one of those fans. He has to leave. No, that's up to him isn't it? That's not to do with that. That's up to him isn't it? But I also was going to say before we finish on this point you know, Spears were very good against Devon but he scored two great goals but in the summer do you see either Manchester Club coming back for him? Because I looked at him against us the other night and he showed both sides of his game. When you see him the way he drops into that space he shoots city perfectly. I don't know to be honest because I don't know whether it's the city thing gone. I don't know. Pef might be looking at Harland but then Harland looks like he's destined for Real Madrid. But I'm not based going to Madrid then. But you have both of them. Turn them into a top team again. United, it's exactly what United need. I mean he could really contain United into a top side and it would almost be like Robin. I don't think United would fall into the top city he fell into. I think Man United would pay the money. I think they'd pay the money. I think they'd clear the decks this summer and they'd prepare to pay the money because ultimately he would move them so much closer to being in there. Not maybe not for the title but right in there. It's a statement signing. He's not going to get slower is he? No, it's a statement signing isn't it? But I think the city might have come and gone. It's a good win for space. Deep trouble, deep trouble. But Harry Kane isn't overrated. Not my opinion anyway. On to the games of the weekend. Leicester beat Leeds, 1-0 Leeds with Jesse Marsh. Went to Leicester, had 19 attempts of goal to Leicester's 4 and got beat 1-0. Casprous Michael got man on a match. He was good. Still the same problems with Leeds in terms of still a little bit open. But work that I've got lots of shots away under Jesse Marsh. They've got big games coming up, got two-one games coming up. Ask them to build it at home and not at your home. We're in both of them. Comfortable. Leicester isn't it? Leicester are weird because Leicester watched the large part of this game the weekend. Leicester just looked like they had nothing going for them. Do you know what I mean? It's just weird because they are a good side Leicester. It looked to me like it was a gaming early mate where they couldn't do anything. They weren't going up or down. They were just going through the motions. Badly wasn't because badly never does. He's injured again now for another three weeks. He looked like they were going through the motions a bit Leicester. And then obviously Harvey Bards. Difficult that way for Leicester just because they're still in Europe. They're coming to a place in the Premier League where they're sort of... How much have they got to play for? They've only got 33 points. They've still got Europe I imagine. Just maybe but they have to have a fantastic run. But I don't know. I don't know. It was home game and Leeds are very good and they beat them. It's a good goal. Nice on this by Harvey. Excuse me. Asked him by the four. Salt Anton Nill. Phil Catenio was excellent in this one. For Ville. Salt Anton being on a great run. But Ville dispatched them all the workings. Got them up and running. At the nine minutes and Catenio should have scored two or three and then squared. He scored himself after 53 minutes and then Danny Ings after 54 minutes. So Salt Anton doing the old evidence. Letting a couple of goals in within quick succession. Again, another couple of teams who are safe mid table and are just in effect. Salt Anton is done in the FA Cup of course. But in effect in the Premier League are just playing the season out now. And it will be, I imagine for both teams will be. When a few lose a few. But they're both safe and they're not really again. Both could have got an outside very, very outside chance of getting that seventh place, I imagine. But very, very outside. The 10 behind space. They go very, very outside chance. 12, yeah. So yeah, mid table. But Salt Anton were on a good run. Still had 62% of the ball. Chelsea went to Burnley and beat them 4-0. Burnley were all right in the first half. They had a couple of chances. But Reese James gave Chelsea the lead. And then Kai Havertz scored twice in two minutes to put the game to bed. Three goals in eight minutes which took the game away from Burnley. A fourth from Pulisic near the end. Ben Chillwell was back for Chelsea who were fighting for that third spot. But I think they've massively missed him and they've massively missed James, haven't they? You know, they've been, I think that's a major factor why they have struggled to not keep up with the top two. So I think now they're back, I think you'll see them. It's perfect timing for the Champions League, isn't it? Absolutely perfect timing for having them two back. They've only lost three games. No, no, no, but it's finishing the other games. No, no, I'm saying they've only lost three games. It's all night, which has been the issue. The 10 behind Liverpool are again and they are 16 behind City, the two games. They're in 10 points of the won the games in hand. There are a plus 35 goal difference. Rom just hasn't scored enough for them, hasn't he? Doesn't fit them, doesn't shoot them. Doesn't shoot them. And at the other end, Burnley, obviously, still in a bottom three with that. Just keep losing, Burnley. Yeah, yeah. Well, they had two at ten, so they got off the bottom three at me and they didn't win either of them, so fortunately. Newcastle, two bright and one other win for Newcastle, which has put them on 28 points. And I've given them a real chance of staying up. No, no, they're safe. They're safe. No issues at all.  Brighton are in the mix again, mid-table. They've started losing games as well because I think they just got to the point where they were a little bit comfortable and now they're losing games now. And they've started to lose games, but they'll be fine. They'll be perfectly fine. One seven games all season. They'll be fine. They're bright. Yeah. Norwich won Brentford three. I haven't thrown him with a hat trick in this one again. Norwich missed some good chances at Nillnill. And Trony put Brentford ahead and then, you know, there's obviously Christian Erickson playing as well, his first half of the season. Then got many pens in six minutes as Evan have had. Big, big, big win and obviously there's a couple of cracking set pieces from Christian Erickson. But Norwich a dros. And I can't believe we got beat by them. But I think Norwich have almost, you look at them now and listen, they're not cut a drift, but you almost get the sense that they've run the course. Well, they had a little flurry and he beat us one at Watford. Got a couple of points here and there and they were like, and then it's hit the ground again. They've got Chelsea, haven't they? At home at the weekend, which would be a tough one. They played 27 as well, but on the 17th, there were four behind there and five behind Evan, six behind Leeds. Evan had two games around London. So, you know, for them. For Brentford, up to 28 points, 27 points. Big win for them. Not sure they'll win many more but a big win for them. There's five points for Evan, but Evan have got three games around London. Got a win them on me. Evan have played Brentford's course as well, a good one. But good win for them and it's important to get Tony's score on goal. Hattuck for Tony, which is big. I was going to say, sorry on Tony's ice-cold on those pens. Ah, it's cheap paper. The fact that he took one and then in one corner and then he put it in the same corner for the second one was ice-cold. He's got nine goals now, isn't it? This season, four penalties. But nine goals, yeah. Wolves nil palace two, bit of a shock this one. Palace have been all right, but they've won the last couple of away games. Fantastic in the first half. Good goal by Mateta and then a penalty. Finish well by Zahar. I think what Wolves is, they don't score a lot of goals. So if you can take the lead against them, put them on the back foot and then they're under pressure. So I think that's exactly what palace did. They started really strong when after them and got the goals and didn't let up and then second half controlled it and showed the game out quite comfortably. Wolves had 64% possession but both had 12 shots each. So big win for palace that basically guarantees the safety. They've had a couple of good wins recently. David just edge in into trouble. They've been losing games and then they've gone away and they've won two away games on the spin and they've chucked them away from danger on 33 points and all. Liverpool beat West Ham 1-0 in the half-five Shadiol Mai. Goal, little bit of a hint of an offside. No, it was offside. If the Cardinals was offside that was offside. But West Ham mischances didn't need to have the Lanzini at the end to make it 1-1. Big win for Liverpool keeping them in the front obviously in the title race. Can't have any slip-ups. No, they can't slip up. There's six behind City Bull. West Ham are just still riding the mix. Riding the mix, they're a win-off. Fourth Arsenal do Arsenal 3.3 games on West Ham. So it's unlikely West Ham are going to get there. But it's in the home for Europe still of course, still in Europe as well. And then on to Sunday Arsenal went to Woffordham 1-3 too. Three brilliant goals by Arsenal like team got. Just fantastic football at the guard for the first one I don't know if it will back here then the wing in it. Just data put it in and then sackers got a brilliant one on Martin Ellie. After Wofford got a level that we were over a kick from Canada's and then Mewshers was soaked off that a Ben White mistake made it 3-2. But Arsenal hung on and got the victory. Yeah, they're flying. They're flying. Absolutely flying. Yeah, I think they're fighting and as I said as they're building something because it's quite a young side you feel like they're all around the same age going in the same direction with Arthetta's got his way with Sinons in and out it feels like he's got complete control of the narrative there. Everyone's pulling in the same direction there's no outside influences or inside influences it seems to be it's like what you want there feels very much like this harmony now the fans are all on board because you've watched, you've seen it there's an upward trajectory and they've seen it players you've brought have done well or getting better as it goes along and that's all you want as a fan isn't it when you don't want those to distract them when you can see something being built I know it's difficult when you're in there and it's not going your way but if you stick together and it works out it's very fulfilling something we've not quite experienced but we don't know what it is and then obviously the Manchester Derby was the last game on Sunday and the four ones are sitting I guess it's comfortable of when you'll ever see the Manchester Derby City finished 69% to be fair though I don't I don't mind you how to play well in the first half they always had that little threat on the counter attack and we'll keep them city guessing and obviously you've got it back to 1-1 with a great goal for you but then they got the goal just before half time by Kevin De Bruin and then in the second half they just took over and they didn't give United had four touches they didn't give United any kind of breathing space kept batting kept batting and a couple of Marys goals settled it again one very marginal but was given by the VAR that's the fourth one third was the cross little deflection and you've seen the goal between the two sides Manchester United they like effort non-stellar there's no doesn't seem to any harmly at the club spent a lot of money no identity players seem to be ruling the roost over the manager the manager seems powerless because he's only into the end of the season one man United needs to do is go out and get a manager funny just some asshole then United needs something like that they need someone to come in and just go you go on get rid of them I know that was the plan was to weed out he got rid of the car because he thought he was part of the problem he wanted to get rid of the Pogba but couldn't he wanted to get rid of a few other players Lingard and people like that but he could never quite get rid of them and they stayed and I think they made it worse by bringing them in and out he's the biggest one out he's the biggest problem they've got because of who he is or his attitude but just because he has so much power and therefore and then that transmits into commercial power and all those extra factors which the cause of he's not someone they really needed and you see I think you see Sancho's game Elevate when he plays with Ronaldo doesn't and that's the way it should be it should be a young 22-23 year old taking Manchester United not a 36-87 year old who's got nothing left to prove or to do or he's not going to take United anyway he's not going to close that winning anything 22 points behind City played the same games United's goal difference plus 7 well how many points are there behind City's goal difference plus 50 how many are there behind Chelsea six Chelsea got two games in a hand the one point behind Arsenal Arsenal have got three games in a hand so it's Arsenal's the throw away isn't it although Spears are three points behind Arsenal Arsenal have only got one game in a hand so that is that interesting the thing I think Wolves are too far gone from it to be in the race for that particular position but you'd have to say that Spears Westam is between obviously then for Arsenal United Spears Westam for that place Arsenal look the favour right now the league is Manchester City 69.28 games Liverpool 63.27 Chelsea 53.26 Arsenal 48.25 United 47.28 Westamons Spears 45 points Westamons played two games more Wolves 40.27 Southampton 35.27 in 9th Palace 33.28 in 10th Villa 33.26 Leicester 33.25 and Brighton 33.27 then comes the relegation battle and Newcastle are in it because they are still in it they've got 28.26 games Brentford have got 27.28 games Leeds have got 23.27 games Evans have got 22.25 games Burnley have got 21.26 games Wafford 19 from 27 and Norwich 17 from 27 so lots to play for make sure you check out the rest of that video on beth victims youtube channel the link is in the description see what else to get in disgust talking about Man City and talking about which fan basis the most eluded that will be very interesting will be very interesting go and check that out leave a comment make sure you give this video a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't and if you want daily live videos and lots more things join us over on patreon the link again is in the description see you later


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Good morning and welcome to Moments with Melinda. I have as my guest Paul Asbell. Paul, how are you? I am good today. I hope you are too and everybody out there. It's a beautiful sunny day, but let me tell my viewers a little bit about you. Paul Asbell is a musician who played the blues in Chicago and since the early 1970s has created a multi-faceted musical career here in northern Vermont. So it's short for a very long career, but we're going to ask you lots of questions about your life. So I want to first say Tina Turner. Yeah. I mean, her life is a lot of music, but it's also what a story. And for women. So anyway, I just wanted to... Yeah, well, let's... You better be good to her up there wherever she is. So Paul, tell us a little bit about your early years growing up, your childhood, a little bit about your youth. Well, I grew up in Chicago. I grew up in a way that most people, it's so much different than most people. My folks moved to Chicago from New York in 1946. And my dad and mom were kind of a pair. They were hired to open the chapter of what's called People's Songs in Chicago. There already was a chapter, but they were very active in New York. And People's Songs was basically sort of a left-wing-oriented labor movement, civil rights-oriented bunch of folks that is the sort of the beginnings of what we often think of as the protest song movement. But this was back in the mid-40s. And my dad and his associates were people like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, who was often a guest at our house when we moved to Chicago. And these people were around all the time. And my dad was a musician of sorts. He became really a freelance and book author in his somewhat later life. And that's really what he felt he was kind of born to do. But he was a folk singer and a songwriter in the beginning. And so I heard music around the house, not from the radio or obviously I heard records, but also he was always rehearsing with people downstairs when I was trying to go to sleep. And Pete Seeger would come over the house and he would have his banjo case and he'd have an ax. And I never understood the ax part till much later. It was explained to me that this was part of the stage setup. But these were people that I took for granted as kind of growing knowing about. And so one of the things that I just saw music all the time. We were on the south side of Chicago. I was born at 47th and Drexel. Anybody who knows kind of the geography of Chicago will probably say, really? It was a neighborhood. There was the edge of a neighborhood called Bronzeville. And you can probably guess what the bronze term meant.   Okay, got it. And I, you know, I didn't even remember it quite that way. But it was just it was growing up as a minority and the majority culture is something that most white people don't have really a sense of. And that was something that was a big part of my upbringing. And it was kind of and it shapes your life in a lot of ways. What an extraordinary childhood. Extraordinary. So who would you say provided you with the greatest inspiration to pursue your music career? You mean kind of musical inspiration, I suspect? Musical inspiration. Well, I think if you asked almost any musician that would evolve over the years. There were people like Doc Watson in Mississippi, John Hurt and Leighton and Hopkins who and Bob Dylan for that matter who when I kind of came of age around, you know, 12, 13 years old, those were people that I heard who as I often kind of reference it like they put the hair up on my head. You know, I, I, the hair stood on the back of my head up when I listened to them and I knew, okay, this is something very special. It's speaking to me. And you know, quite different than music from the radio that spoke to some of my friends and stuff. And there was a small group of people who kind of got that, you know, music often is a niche thing. And it's also kind of a bonding thing for people. But you know, that as I learned to play a little bit more and play better and stuff, that changed. Those people were all basically acoustic guitar players and folk oriented performers or blues oriented performers. And at some point, I, you know, electric music at first was just like silliness, you know, and when I saw the Beatles first on Ed Sullivan, like everybody my age, it was like, well, that's, you know, they are kind of cool looking, but I don't know. That's just silly music. And you know, that changed sort of over the years. And it certainly changed when I heard electric blues from my hometown of Chicago, and all of a sudden realized that electric music was not just silly music. I know this is probably very strange sounding to a lot of people. I don't think it is. It certainly isn't to me. I mean, think about Dylan when he went electric and what happened? It was long before that. Aha. This was long before that. So who bought you your first guitar? My dad. Well, I used his guitar. Okay, you used your dad's guitar.  And that's a, you know, kind of an iconic, now iconic guitar. It was just a quality, relatively small guitar that was sort of right for me. And I didn't need to use his Stella anymore. Anyway, the guitarist knows what Stella guitars are. So he was, he was a great inspiration for you as your father. Now, you have recorded with some of the greats, and you mentioned a few of them, but let me. John Lee Hooker, Allen Wolf, Leighton Hopkins, Otis Rush, and others including Paul Butterfield while living in Chicago. Tell us about that time, playing with those greats. Well, these people had all been heroes of mine. And, you know, in my kind of second phase that I alluded to, where all of a sudden I realized that this music that was being made on electric instruments was, was, it had captured my imagination in a huge way. But I started loving it before I was able to be legal to get into clubs. So, and there were clubs that were, you know, muddy waters and junior wells and how the wolf played in clubs that were three, four blocks from where I lived. But I couldn't go there, you know, and I later got false ID like every young musician did in order to be able to get in, and they didn't check really that much. But, but, you know, when I was 14 years old, that wouldn't have worked. And at a small 14 at that. So anyway, I, you know, first heard them from records, even though I knew that they were around my neighborhood, I sometimes even see them sometimes, you know, driving by or parked in front of a club that, but I couldn't go in. And at some point, I was able to go in sometimes with slightly older friends. And I just got, well, I had already been fired up by the music. At some point, I was actually, I started setting, sitting in with groups. And it wasn't long before I was asked to play rhythm guitar for people that really were heroes of mine. I mean, they were before that. And they remained that people like Muddy Waters and Holland Wolf and Otis Rush. And these people were all around the South side, right in the neighborhood I grew up in. So I don't know. It's one thing led to another very quickly back then. Outstanding. I mean, what, what an incredible immersion into some of the greatest music of that time. And I mean, growing up, you know, listening to Pete Seeger, little boxes, and his, his, his effect on the 60s. Yeah, I'm assuming you were a, you were a 60s revolutionary, like me. Well, I mean, I didn't throw any mall top cocktails. Well, of course, not neither did I. But, but I'm assuming that you coming from a liberal family that using that music and the music of Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie, you know, our music back then was revel, was music about change? Well, Arlo Guthrie is close to a contemporary of mine. My dad's friends were Woody Guthrie, his dad. And so I was, and there's a lot of what you're saying, that's very true. It was changed that much of which did not happen. And, you know, was a pretty big disappointment to many people. The, but yes, you're, that's right. And that was the year in which I grew up. So, well, you know, I mean, I'm gonna, I'm gonna defend my generation, our generation is we did help to bring in the civil rights movement, the disability movement, the women's movement.  And we changed the way that people looked at the earth and the planet Earth Day was, you know, bloomed around that time is certainly women's rights. So I think, and I think the music helped with that, whether it's Joan Baez or Bob Dylan or the, or whomever it was, just in Woodstock, we were, and I'm not saying that that's not happening now, but it's, it's very different. And we'll talk about that. Now, you moved back to Vermont in the early 1970s. And you began your recording career with folks like Big Mama Thornton, Mary McCaslin, Bobby McFerrin and others. Can you talk about those early years in Vermont? And what, what brought you to Vermont from Chicago? Well, my recording career actually had begun in earnest in Chicago, of course. I, when I came to Vermont, which was actually in May of 1971, it's very hard to, if I try to explain what was in my, my, and my girlfriend's mind at the time, it would be nonsensical probably because it was, but the, I had sort of burned out on an extremely intense six night a week, playing situation in Chicago. And I saw kind of the club I played at, I was playing from 10 to four every night. And then on Saturday was 10 to five. So I would be driving home in the daylight. And, you know, that's when I would catch my sleep would be long after the sun came up. And basically, you know, well, is this the life I want to live in the, the kind of halcyon images I had of certain friends who lived in a more rural situation, which I'd never really done. That started to really, really appeal. And I moved to North Duxbury, Vermont, which is basically halfway up Campbell's hump road on the sort of Duxbury, Waterbury side, and bought a little tiny plot of land in full view of Campbell's hump and built a geodesic dome. If anybody has ever read the whole earth catalog, you're reading my life, basically. Yeah, the Savonius rotor, the energy producer that was in Mother Earth news. Yeah, totally. Well, that's, that's our generation, my friend. I think a lot of us came up in the early 1970s and bought a cheap, and then we all got FHA loans, which were like 2% less than a half a percent interest.  Tell us a little bit about Joe and that time in your life during those 20 years. Well, Kilimanjaro was a group of four people at that time. It had actually begun technically as the Paul Asbell quartet and became, you know, because I selected such tremendously, you know, gifted and, and skilled and compatible musicians for that group. We just became something much bigger than one guy's group. So we definitely kind of reflected the, the sort of democracy of the spirit of the thing by calling it Kilimanjaro. And we played in Burlington and kind of regionally, we did a lot of touring later. We were playing music that was vocalist music. It was based on songwriting that really was not very pop. It was a little bit pop, but it had so many jazz influences to it that it's kind of amazing that we were able to do things like play three and sometimes even four night weekends at a hunts, for example, which was the sort of higher ground of Burlington at that time. And the, and I'm sure there's some people around who are old enough to remember all those times. At any rate, this was all happening prior to, not prior to me knowing Big Joe, but prior to us having anything to do with Big Joe sort of on stage. At one point, we started playing with a very good friend of my name, Martin Grosswent. And Martin basically was doing a blues night on Wednesday that we were the band for the Kilimanjaro guys. And as we actually called the band at that time, the unknown blues band, because it was a joke, because really everybody knew that it was Kilimanjaro behind Martin. And that went for a while, and that was a Wednesday, often, not always, but often before our Thursday, Friday, Saturday of Kilimanjaro. And what I'm getting at is that at some point, it became clear that there were other people that would love to fit into this group. And I knew this guy named Big Joe Burrell, who is playing occasionally in town. And I knew that this guy would be a perfect fit for this band that we were calling the unknown blues band. And so I kind of said that, you know, hey, let's invite Joe down. I just, I guarantee you sparks will fly. We don't need to rehearse to do this. And one, the night that that happened, the point was proved that Joe was such an incredible natural fit. What we said at the time was there was a slot in the band that we didn't even know was waiting for Joe. And as soon as Joe came on the scene, bingo, you know, there it is, we've been missing him all along. He's the perfect person to basically front this band. And so anyway, that was really kind of the beginnings of the unknown blues band. And we were originally playing a Wednesday prior to three nights of this sort of jazz pop funk band called Kilimanjaro. And at some point, it became so popular, the unknown blues band thing, that became kind of clear, you know, if we keep doing this guys, this is going to kind of out popular the Kilimanjaro thing. So are we do we really want to do this? And we kind of took a vote, you know, we were democratic. And yeah, sure, we don't know how long Joe will be in the picture and whatever. And so let's just give it all we have. And, you know, so we wound up sort of flip flopping at some point, and we would then then do Kilimanjaro would be the Wednesday, Thursday, and then Friday, Saturday would have been the unknown blues band. And then it became Kilimanjaro just on the Wednesday.  So it was clear that we were giving our efforts to unknown blues band just because of the popularity. And we're still playing together. And, and sometimes we didn't play some of the same tongs. But anyway, that became our us and Big Joe's kind of entrance onto the scene at that point. On to the stage and of course, Big Joe Burrell's beautiful bronze statue is outside of Halverson's and boy that you guys we all rock to your music with Kilimanjaro and also with Big Joe Burrell. So let's move a little bit into your teaching.  You have taught guitar for over 50 years. You taught at the university level at Dartmouth and St. Michael's. And now you're at Middlebury College and the University of Vermont. Talk about that part of your life and helping other people to to learn to play to play music. Well, I'll try to. I started teaching. Yeah, I started as I'm thinking about it now, started teaching like in the late 60s while I was still in Chicago. And at some point, I kind of realized that I had learned at that point in almost entirely on my own. I've had two lessons in my life and I never went to music school, you know, to learn the music that I do. And so it was kind of a challenge to think of, all right, well, if yourself taught, then how do you teach somebody else? And somehow I think I kind of figured out some of the aspects of it sort of early on, because there was so many things that I had to figure out for myself. I kind of when I did figure those things out, I tended to remember how I got them. And so I tried to simulate in some ways, how could I, how could I rearrange the order in which I did things so that if I had it to do all the over again, here's what I do first. And here's what I would do next. And here's what I do next. And I wouldn't do that until I had already done this, that kind of thing. That wasn't how I learned. I learned in a very haphazard, passion driven way. But then I tried to kind of make sense of what, you know, rearrange the things. So this is what I would show to somebody else. And that just went for years and years and years of kind of teaching in in private situations one on one, teaching a lot of lessons where everybody who had come would be very, very different in their aspirations and their skill level and stuff like that. And you can't have a one size fits all approach to all of that. I kind of got good at like, no one size fits all teaching. Do you play by ear? Well, it's that that's a complicated, you had to teach yourself to read music, right? Yeah, that's true. And that's, and to do that on your own is you, that would make you a great teacher, because you would know how then to teach someone who doesn't doesn't play music. So talk to us a little bit about your three solo acoustic CDs have received rave reviews for how you intermix blues and jazz with old time country based themes and original pieces from the American Roots tradition. Now this all comes from your website. So I want to direct my viewers to go to the Paul Asbell P-A-U-L-A-S-B-E-L-L.com website where you can read all about Paul and order a CDs and learn about his music and his life. But talk to us about those three CDs. Because you created them recently. Talked about that. Well, the first one I think was in 2002, but I had been making music for an awful long time before that. And it's funny because a guy I know, a friend of mine named Rick Davis, who was a guitar builder. And at that time was also sort of the head Fred, so to speak, of a luthier's guild called Asia. And he encouraged me to perform solos. You're good enough to do it. You're better than some people who do it all the time. Why don't you? You owe it to people.  If this is all me in my head, I don't even think I ever said it. But I thought to myself, what a terrible idea. I'm destined and put on this earth to play with other people. It was seem clear to me. And at some point, well, it's so much harder, especially with guitar, to kind of perform on your own and to make an entire accompaniment or maybe even entire instrumental performance on one instrument, the guitar. But let me just give it a shot. And I started, as a result, kind of going back to the music that I had actually started doing long before I ever picked up an electric guitar, namely the music of people like Mrs. Debbie John Hurt and Lightning Hopkins and Doc Watson and a whole bunch of acoustic styles that grabbed my attention first on guitar. In any rate, I realized, you know, maybe Rick was right. And I started doing, you know, very nervously, doing some solo performances. And I discovered after getting over enough nerves so that I could find, in addition to the nerves, like there's something really great about a roomful of people who are just totally silent, allowing you to fill entirely the space with who you are. And I kind of never experienced that really before. And I was once, you know, as I said, once the nervousness kind of gave way to the sort of exhilaration of, this is kind of cool. And if I say I never look back, that isn't quite true because well, as well, you should never look back. But your your your life is extraordinary. I can do it. I'm doing it tomorrow night, in fact. Well, I mean, so for my viewers, I'm assuming that people can live stream your your music, if they don't want to CD, I'm assuming. I don't there's not a lot of live streaming. I didn't jump on to the live streaming. So the way so the way to listen to your music would be on YouTube or go to your website and you did and at Paul as Bell as be ll.com. And I can see your CDs. Now let's move on to your accolades. You you have received so many accolades and so many awards over the years. Talk to us a little bit about your duo partners about those recordings where you hooked up with people and played on with folks. Well, it's I mean, all along, you know, my entire music world was in bands and of different sizes. I started after I started doing the the the solo thing, you know, that kind of led to playing kind of duos with people like Brooks Williams, who was a, you know, very kind of a roots music guy, much like myself, but also more of a songwriter. And I also started playing. I had already been playing jazz quite a bit. And in jazz, very often for a guitarist, a really good duo is playing with a bass player, an upright bass player. I do that a lot. In a perfect world of, you know, if a jazz artist was asked like, when you play duo, would you in, you know, is duo better than trio or quartet or whatever? I think most jazz people would say, frankly, I like playing with a slightly larger group. I think most people would say that, although sometimes, like as last night, a duo is really fun to do. Last night, tell us about. Well, I just I played with my longtime bassist buddy, Clyde Statz at the American Flatbread. And so there's a lot, which is a great place and we love it. And but there's a lot of times when, you know, the idea of doing a duo is really just because there's not really enough money to pay for two other guys or whatever.  But but also if it's a smaller place, the more people, the louder, once you enter, add drums into the mix, it can get funkier and more, you know, kind of infectious. But but also it's hard not to play louder. So there are places where duo is exactly the right vibe. So I'm gonna have you play something because I'm just getting so eager to hear you. But can you tell folks, I'm gonna tell folks that, look, when you just released Burmese panther, it's original jazz compositions, and you have a lot of concert date scheduled.  But would you like to play a little something? I would be happy to. I would be so honored. Well, that's really sweet of you to say. Um, yeah, I would be delighted to this song is actually, it's half of the title track of my third acoustic solo CD, which was called Here Goes from adamant to a chafalaya. And oh my god, nobody can pronounce that, including myself. I didn't realize it when I titled it, but there were two songs on it. One of them is called a chafalaya hard thing to pronounce, but that's a swamp in Louisiana that basically has a kind of gave, you know, contributed vibe to a very bluesy kind of song that I'm not going to play. And the other tune on the CD was bound for adamant and which I am going to play. And those two songs kind of represent the sort of spectrum of the music that I love. And so here at any rate is here bound for adamant. Oh, I'm sorry, let me start this again. There we go. That was so beautiful. Thank you, Paul. I want to share with my viewers, we're coming to the end of the show, but I want to share with my viewers. Thank you for that. That was lovely.  Now Chaz, Chaz, great guy. He was the Kilimanjaro keyboardist and you just began a two year recording project with him. So I wanted to mention that that's in the works for you, right? Well, just very clear.  I know Chuck for such a long time, I can't get it out of money. I'll call him Chuck, right? But anyway, he has been the recording engineer for every one of the recordings that I have, including that most recent jazz one, Burmese Panther, but also the three before. We have collaborated on so many things that such a lot of kind of mutual, shorthand for music stuff. There's a lot of things where we don't have to explain stuff to one another. He'll say it's a little bit and I already know where he's going to, I know what the rest of the sentence is going to be, and I think it's kind of back and forth mutual. So we complete one another sentences in a lot of ways musically. So anyway, he has been a terrific kind of ally in my recordings, and yeah, long time. You've made many, many, many, many friends here in Vermont, and you're so beloved. I just want to ask you one more question before we end. What are some words of wisdom that you would like to leave with us as it relates to the state of humanity in our world? Oh, man. I'll ask, Belle, what's a little bit of your wisdom, your aged wisdom that you'd like to share with my viewers? Oh, man. Well, I don't want to get too long winded about it. I also don't know that wisdom is exactly what I have to impart, but I want to say one little message that my life has been about, which I think I alluded to earlier. I grew up as a distinct minority in the neighborhood that I grew up in. And I think that that's a pretty good way to learn to live. It's definitely has some rough spots. And there's a couple of scars in there as a result of that and a certain amount of intimidation that you see towards your fellow man at times. But the idea of not assuming that somehow you're in the minority on things, if you're in the majority on things, but realizing that you are just one voice, there's an awful lot of other voices, and you can't assume that everybody's like you.   And well said, my friend. And I'll tell you, yours is a voice that we have all come to love and appreciate over the years in your humanity and humility are a great comfort. So thank you, Paul Asbell, for your time and your moment with Melinda. I've just loved every second of it. And I hope I can get you back on my show again. And to my viewers, I want to thank you for joining me and Paul today. And I will see you again soon. Have a beautiful day. Bye bye.