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Home is where you hang your hat.

~Leon Redbone

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The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

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Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

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I got out of the music industry many years ago. I had a charlatan for a producer who I wanted nothing to do with. He's dead now, so I guess I can't beat that horse any more. It left a very bad taste in my mouth, so I just went on about my business doing what I do and not involving myself with record companies, except for distribution.

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Who told you I was a musician?

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I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.

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I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.

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I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death.

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What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

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It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: August 26th, 1949

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