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BiTS:  And did that inspire you to start learning to play the guitar?


    BM:  Well, yeah, that was all kind of happening simultaneously after my uncle had
    given me my Gibson Hummingbird when I was about 11. So I was really kind of just
    soaking up as much as I could. Being a girl from Plymouth, didn't have too many

                                                                          options.  So,  I  was  just  sort  of
                                                                          grabbing  whatever  I  could  get
                                                                          my  hands  on,  which  was  my

                                                                          mother's album collection, my
                                                                          father's  album  collection,  and
                                                                          my uncle’s. So luckily, they had

                                                                          good taste in music.

                                                                          BiTS:    Okay.  Did  I  hear  you
                                                                          right?  You  were  born  in

                                                                          Plymouth?

                                                                          BM:  That’s right, yes.

                                                                          BiTS:  Well, you're very local to

                                                                          my Blues in the South ground
                                                                          then.

    BM:  Oh, fantastic. Yeah, actually, going down there on Sunday to catch up with the

    folks.

    BiTS:  Oh, really. Good for you. You'll find that the weather is lovely at the moment.

    BM:  I'm on the Isle of Wight at the moment.


    BiTS:  Yes, so I gather. Tell me about the American tour that you’ve just been on.

    BM:  Well, we got back there on the 1st of November, so it was a six-week tour, but

    the first week was a stationary week. It was a retreat week in a little town called
    New Harmony, which is going to be an annual thing for us now. But yeah, it's a retreat
    and a Blues Festival in this fantastic town with the incredible name, New Harmony,
    and a very sort of hippy sort of style, free form kind of people. And it’s a wonderful

    place to do it.

    BiTS:  Where is New Harmony.


    BM:  It's actually in Indiana.

    BiTS:  Oh, okay.

    BM:  Yeah. So we flew into Chicago and straight after that we started the tour, which
    took us up to Wisconsin and then all the way down to Florida with everything in

    between. So that was like Nashville, Memphis and Cape Girardeau, which is sort of
    St Louis and the Ozarks. So we had a really good run [chuckles].
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