Higgy's page featured John Fahey (on Oct 24). One of my favorite guitarists and mentor to another of my favorite guitarists - Leo Kottke. He died earlier this year. Do read the Fahey links that Higgy provides.

Then go to (link thanks to Higgy's page) John Fahey's page of music at emusic.com. There are 11 of his Takoma albums that you can download for a modest fee. It's $14.99 a month (3 month minimum) or $9.99 a month (12 month minimum). For that you can download as much as you want (all MP3s). And the artists get paid. Well, maybe not John.

But wait, there's more! From John's page you can link to Leo Kottke's armadillo album (with Vaseline Machine Gun) or Robbie Basho or John Renborn. They have 16,000 albums. Not mainstream stuff but a lot of quality stuff. 26 John Coltrane albums and 65 Bill Evans Albums. I mean, it goes on and on. Rock/Pop, Country/Folk, Jazz, Blues, World/Reggae, Elecronic, etc., etc. Some really great stuff.

Emusic also has a page on MP3 tools and which converts MP3s to .wave or .aiff if you want to convert them to music CDs. Of course, it helps to have DSL and a CD burner.