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MUSIC is a language that guitarists find very easy to share no matter where they are.

Our guest on this week's Original Showcase gives a great example of how strangers get together, almost instantly, through the power of song.

New Forest singer/songwriter Bob Burke has just come back from a tour of America supporting Lou Brown.

But Bob was also there on a working trip so he was combining business with pleasure.

As he had meetings on both sides of America there was a fantastic opportunity to take a two-day train journey from Chicago to LA.

During this trip he was talking to another guitarist on board and, after a while, they discovered that across the aisle was a Bermudan guitarist who had just finished a tour of Germany.

So they all went down to the lounge car with Bob's guitar, started playing, and after one song 20 people were gathered around calling out requests.

Bob says the bar was drunk dry well before Los Angeles. I would have loved to have been there: watching the States roll past and listening to people join together thanks to music.

"Part of what I go on the road for is to meet people," Bob told me, "You find new situations and new people that you write about."

He wrote six songs while there and we recorded the beautiful Orion's

2:39pm Friday 18th April 2008

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