” as a axe-lady in waiting”
Oh, yes. Here I am with my Rock and Roll hair, wearing my black jeans and black T-shirt, holding my black guitar and thrashing away “A . . . D . . . A . . . D . . . A – A – (oh for goodness sake) A!!! . . . D . . . D – D- (well that’s not even the right string!) . . . D!!! (that’s better) . . . A . . . D . . .
aka ‘All the gear – No idea!’
“Bet she chooses really good songs, too.”
Rumer is also a song-writer, and wrote Aretha along with many, if not all (I don’t remember) the other songs she sings. I saw her on Jules Holland’s Hootananny and just thought “I need that song.”