In 1981, Lenny returned to Canada for the first time in five years to play a series of gigs at the Bourbon Street Jazz Club.Journalist David Cole interviewed Lenny for his weekly radio show, Variety Tonight. Lenny discusses the influence of Chet Atkins and his transition from country music to jazz and his early influences in the latter genre.
Note that Lenny first met Chet in 1967, not 1969 as he states in the interview.