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GG: Yeah, I've got lots and lots and lots of music, partly from my own collection. In
the room next to me there are about 5000 CDs and the room I'm in, if I look around,
there's probably 2000 CDs in here.

BiTS: Wow!

GG: Plus all the music that I obviously get sent by artists and labels and PR people.
My postman is a very good friend because he often brings me bundles and bundles

of CDs, but like many people these days, I get lots of downloads from all kinds of
places as well. And as I said, I've got to like it. It doesn't matter, I'm not going to

name any names, but, you know, it doesn’t matter who it's by. Somebody rich and
famous, or somebody starting out, if I don't like it, I'm not going to play it.

BiTS: Right. And tell me how you actually decide what sort of order you're going

to have. Do you have a theme to each programme, or how does it work for you?

GG: Well, for some time, about the
past six or seven months, I don't

normally have a theme or anything,
but for the past six or seven months,
I've been starting the show with two
or three tracks from brand new

releases. Usually from bands rather
than solo artists. So they might be

more up tempo. Then I'll move into an
acoustic spot depending on what new
music I've got, and I'll find links that
way. If I, for example, Rick Vito’s last

album “Cadillac Man”, well it’s obvious
I’m going to look through my hard

drive, so any other tracks that’s got
anything to do with the Cadillac, that'll
give me the chance to play three or four tracks in sequence, all around a small thing.

Then something else that I started to do over the last few months is, as I come out
of the news, it's like top of 7 o’clock and 8 o’clock, go straight into a slow blues. And
that's just something I've decided would work, and it does and people appreciate

that as well. And also when I get to the end of the last hour of the show, mostly, but
not always, it's mainly acoustic blues for the last half hour or so. New blues and old
blues as well.

BiTS: And talking of old blues, do you listen to old music?

GG: Oh, I do. I've got a good selection of music from the Document Records label,
about 25 of their CDs, and I feature tracks from them quite a lot, and just this week,

last week I played three tracks from a new release from Babe Stovall, which was
recorded in 1966, and has just been released now.