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• The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their…
• And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record…
• I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and…
• The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the…
• People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the…
• The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social…
• The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind…
• He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs.…
• You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally,…

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