Over the last 50-plus years since Tradewinds started, I’ve done a boatload of interviews – radio, TV, newspapers, magazines – in a number of countries, in the Caribbean and North America – but just this week, in a wide-ranging email from a fan, a lady from Grand Cayman came at me with a new one: “A lot of things have been written and said about Dave Martins, and while you may have to think about it I wonder if you could say how do you see yourself?” I had never heard the question before, but I didn’t have to stop and ponder. The answer popped out of me like a cork from a bottle: “Actually, in another conversation here recently, I said to someone that basically I see myself as a country boy from West Dem. There have been a couple occasions where I may have strayed from that, but inevitably I always found myself somehow connecting to that description.”
