Genres: World music, worldbeat, exotica, easy listening, mandolin music, Adult Contemporary Music, soft rock, bluegrass, folk, country Long Tall Jay: Doctor of all trades, master of none! Medical doctor (diagnostic radiologist: gold medalist) from University of Delhi, India; alumnus of ETSU bluegrass program; PhD Ethnomusicology from Univ. of Texas at Austin; now pursuing 4th PhD in Arts/Music Education and teaching at SFU. I was congenitally infected with a love of Western music, but had no opportunity of learning to play music in India in the 1990s. So, I quit my family diagnostic radiology practice, bought a barely-functional mandolin, hopped on a Aeroflot flight and then a Greyhound to knock on the doors of East Tennessee State University's Bluegrass program. Despite their reservations about funding, I wore them down, eventually spending two decades in 2 MA and 4 PhDs chasing my American musical muse. In Dec. 2000, I picked up the bass guitar, and that resulted in all my pro gigs in Johnson City, TN, and around Austin, Texas. I returned to India as associate professor of ethnomusicology at a pioneering Western-style liberal education institute (FLAME University, Pune), but eventually escaped back to the wide open Western spaces again, on the ruse of pursuing another MA and 2 more PhDs. Without as many performance opportunities in playing bass in Vancouver, I have mostly been expanding my repertoire on the mandolin and ukulele in recent years. I am also teaching at SFU (Designs for Learning: Music) in the faculty of Education, where I am working on a PhD in Arts Education and an autoethnographic dissertation titled, "“Price of Love: Autoethnographic Reflections on Living, Loving, Chasing, and Learning Others’ Music in a Culturally Adrift Late Modern World.”