Take a risk, let your hidden talent shine – The Royal Gazette

Created: Jan 13, 2022 08:00 AM

In the ancient city of Chiang Mai in Thailand, behind the crumbling twelfth century walls of the fortress, is a maze of winding streets and alleyways.

I was lost in the evening darkness with my husband Bill, enjoying the cool mountain air drifting down from the mountains of Burma, when he squeezed my hand and stopped.

Drifting in and out at the edge of our hearing was the cry of a blues guitar.

Bill squeezed my hand harder. “That is Boy!” he whispered. “I recognise his style!”

Boy (Thirasak Konchanthet) is the finest blues guitarist in Northern Thailand, a country that still reveres the blues ever since the days of the Vietnam War, when countless American GIs visited for R & R.

He owns Boy Blues Bar, the biggest and most rocking music club in the city.

Boy is a Thai man with long, crazy, frizzy, grey hair and a…