Linda: Well I have my Menkovich that I absolutely love and my Lo Prinzi. Since I am performing with an electric harpsichord I need to have pick up not just mic’d so I use a cut away Alvarez with pick up .

PCM: What were the clubs you played in?

Linda: 2^nd Fret, Main Point of course. There was place that didn’t last long called Folk,There was The 2^nd of Autumn, there weren’t that many clubs then, I guess I played them all.

PCM: Did you ever come across Joni Mitchell at the 2^nd Fret or Main Point?

Linda: Oh, Many Times.

PCM: What was she like?

Linda: She was an extreme talent. I do think she played the on the "I’m so frail act". But sure! If you’re that good, so what! She was a very talented, look what she’s done.

PCM: I’m pretty sure you were the last act to play at the original Main Point. I remember seeing your show that night and looking at the schedule and seeing no acts after your show and the following Saturday it just said closed. I asked the lady who ran it and she said, "We’re closing".

Linda: Yeah, I shut down a lot of places. (Laughs)Remember Stars?

PCM: Who were some of the people you were billed with?

Linda: Well, Procal Harem, Buffy Saint Marie, Jerry Jeff Walker, Dave Van Ronk, John Fahey, there’s re so many people I can’t think of them all.

PCM: When the clubs starting closing in Philadelphia in the late 70's, where you worried about the arts in Philadelphia?

Linda:  I was worried about it but not in a benevolent way for the arts.(laughs) I was worried about making a living.

PCM: Where do you place your music?

Linda: No category it’s an amalgam of the good music I learned to play plus what I add to it.

PCM: If you play instrumental music and don’t play straight out classical , jazz, blues or whatever, you’re called new age.

Linda: In a popular mind yeah.

PCM: How do you respond when people called your music new age?

Linda: Watch out for the vomit! I might ruin your microphone. Well, what was new age was form less, morpheus noodling. It was noodle soup. It was messing around with no particular thematic matter so it created a spacey mood without any content. They don’t say that much anymore. What they use to call new age they call it world now.

PCM: You don’t think what they call world music is world?

Linda: It’s as close as you get. I think it’s a lot of things thrown in and new age is one of them.

PCM: I listen to world music, I never thought of it as the new new age.

Linda: Yeah but all the instruments you play, you have something from china..... You are playing world music.

PCM: I have to change the title on the World page of my site. I don’t want anyone to get a new age impression.