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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate genres. I think they're just marketing labels.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't consider myself at the kind of stature of somebody who can play five cities on a tour, and that's it. I go where I'm wanted, and I've always had the rural areas of the country. We've always gone there, since the Carolina Chocolate Drops. There's a fan base that's there, and if I can afford to do it, I do it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's important that everybody has access to music, and not just people who live in cities or who can afford to drive to the nearest city.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up listening to country music. I got into traditional stuff later, but I listened to the commercial stuff of the '90s, especially the women who were so strong, like Mary Chapin Carpenter and Kathy Mattea. It's a great art form.
- Nov 07, 2020
If I want to support my family and my crew, we have to be on the road, and that's really tiring.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was the special thing about the Carolina Chocolate Drops. We didn't want to do music full-time. We weren't looking to get rich, which is good, because we didn't. But we went further than we thought we would go. We started that band to celebrate Joe Thompson and the black string band music. That's not really a recipe for commercial success.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really taken with 'Calling Me Home' by Alice Gerrard.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt culturally adrift as a child because I'm mixed race. I've had to deal with that since I was little. Who am I? What makeup do I have? What are the black and the white?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's kind of remarkable, everything that's happened to me. It's been such a whirlwind, but in a good way.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked women singers and appreciate a good story being told. That's what country music used to do on the radio.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first band I was in out of college was a Celtic band, and I had to learn to sing with a microphone, because I'd never done that before. At Oberlin, I never used a mic for any kind of singing.
- Folk Songs
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been getting interested in reimagining folk songs and writing songs that should have existed but didn't, particularly around the Civil War when black voices were muted and only allowed particular channels.
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- Nov 07, 2020