Lindsey met the look evenly. "I did say 'this and that,'" he pointed out, lifting his book slightly, his place marked with a finger between the pages.

"I mostly play country," probably wouldn't come as much of a surprise. "But I listen to lots of music as long as it's good." For reasons he didn't plan to discuss, he had a knee-jerk dislike for hymns and most gospel music, but Lindsey enjoyed and could talk as knowledgeably about opera or nineteenth century piano composers, for example, as he could Johnny Cash or Merle Haggard.