Archive for December, 2005

Ralphination: A Short Tribute to Ralph Kirkpatrick (1912 – 1984)

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

I remember the year of Ralph’s passing because it was also the year I lost my other “foster grandfather”, an amazing, elderly Scotsman named Thomas Robertson, who briefly owned the guitar store where I had my first decent guitar instruction – in fact my only ever regular guitar instruction of any significance.