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“Todd had a way of making the world feel a little lighter — a lot funnier and all the more honest,” Keen said.
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“Al Barlow has created much more music than the many songs he has written, played, and sang for us for so many years. If there were ever a super hero of song, Al is it.”
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“I had a passenger named Ellen. She was the only passenger on my bus for three or four years. … So. it was like we were in a parallel universe. We made up magical animals and places that we would encounter,” Natoli said.
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The Jiménez family forever shaped music in the Southwest, and their influence will continue to ring out in the dancehalls across the Lone Star State for years to come.
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“I’ve always kind of struggled with doing what I think is responsible and more following my heart and doing what’s fun,” Minnick said.
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“It’s hard to imagine at this late date, House of the Rising Sun sounding any different from the common version defined in the popular culture by the Animals’ 1964 recording of the song, but in it’s long history, there is very little precedent for the jazz inspired chord progression and bluesy vocal phrasing most performers…
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“If New Folk is any indication, the route ahead for acoustic original music feels smooth and fast. The train’s leaving from Kerrville—all aboard!”
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“I felt like I wanted to reinvent music from my own point of view,” Mustard said. “I think people should just do the music that is coming out of them.”
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“Imitation is, after all, the highest form of flattery, and when we love a work of art, we can’t help but take a piece of it forward with ourselves into our own works.”
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“This industry really relies on just using people’s bodies up, and mine conveniently was already halfway used up,” Shoulders said. “I get to kind of make my own rules.”
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