Joshua Breakstone, the melodically inspired guitarist, writes, also from New York:
Thanks for the link to Terry Teachout’s article on Randolph Scott. As great as the lines you quoted in your piece are, it’s genius- no doubt- to come up with an observation on the order of “The dashing young leading man of the Thirties now looked as though he’d been carved from a stump, and every word he spoke reeked of disillusion.” It’s brilliant, it’s illuminating and heart wrenching at the same time, it’s got time, cadence, rhythm, what a line!