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‟ For me the bare feet are grounding. I'm connected to the Earth in a way that I cannot be any other way.
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‟ I'm really taken with 'Calling Me Home' by Alice Gerrard.
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‟ I love the U.K. folk scene. In the States, nobody knows what to do with me. There's still a very narrow definition of Americana.
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‟ When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my god. And then I went to Africa, to the Gambia, and studied the akonting, which is an ancestor of the banjo, and just that connection to me was just immense.
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‟ You know, I really feel a responsibility to the music, and I teach workshops in music sometimes. And folks do come to me and they go, 'How do I make this blues song my own? How do I feel like I'm not an impostor doing this?' And I'm like, 'That's an excellent question.' That's where you should start, where you go, 'How does this speak to me?'
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‟ It's not about me, it's about the music. I don't do this because I want to be a star. I don't do this because I want to make a lot of money.
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‟ What's really interesting to me is to have a connection to what was going on in the past, but to make it a living thing.
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