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I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.

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I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

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I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

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I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.

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I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.

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I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.

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I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.

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I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

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I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.

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I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: January 18th, 1982

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