:03:12
Maybe when I was about 10,
I started playing the guitar.
:03:14
I found a guitar in the house
that my father bought, actually.
:03:18
I found something else in there.
This kind of mystical overtones.
:03:22
There was a great big mahogany radio.
:03:25
It had a 78 turntable
when you opened up the top.
:03:29
And I opened it up one day...
:03:31
and there was a record on,
a country record...
:03:33
this song called
Drifting Too Far From Shore.
:03:42
The sound of the record made me feel
like I was somebody else...
:03:46
and that...
:03:50
you know, I was maybe not even
born to the right parents, or something.
:04:08
It looked like any other town
out of the '40s or '50s.
:04:11
Just some rural town.
It was on the way to nowhere.
:04:14
And you probably couldn't find it on a map.
:04:23
Maybe three blocks one way,
and maybe three blocks the other way...
:04:26
and that was like a main street
where all the department stores were...
:04:29
the drugstores, the...
That's about it, you know.
:04:37
What happens to a town
after the livelihood is gone?
:04:40
All right, it just sort of decays
and blows away, doesn't it?
:04:43
That's the way it goes.
:04:46
Most of the land was either farmland...
:04:48
or just completely scavenged
by the mining companies.
:04:51
Very hot in the summertime...
:04:53
in the winter,
it was just rightly cold, you know.
:04:55
All winter, it was just, I mean...
:04:58
We didn't have the clothes they have now...