This afternoon, on the way home I stopped by the new Larry Morgan shop to see how they were adjusting to the move. While I was there I started thinking about something that had happened to me when the location belonged to some other long gone music shop.
About six or seven years ago while I was noodling around on a Danelectro, into the demo room walks an older gentleman with a gorgeous blonde hollow-bodied guitar the shop was holding for him. Well, the inevitable happened and we had ourselves a yabber and played a few bits together, just improvising and goofing off. After a bit, he wants to play a tune he says he recorded years ago, so off he goes and a few bars later he asks if I know it....well, no to be honest, not exactly. It did sound familiar in a fuzzy sorta way. He shows me the chord pattern and I muddle through it. Sounded like something my grandpa would have listened to.
Its time to get going and as we say good-bye he introduces himself as I'm Larry Cooper, I used to play for Tennesse Ernie Ford.
I haven't thought much about it since, but I can't find a single reference to a Larry Cooper and TE Ford in any search engine, and I was wondering if any of you walking, breathing musical encyclopedias might know if this guy was the real deal or putting me on.
Mike
