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which I wasn't aware of at all.
:23:04
The name just popped into my head
one day.
:23:06
But it didn't really happen
any of the ways that I've read about it.
:23:09
I mean, I just don't feel like I had had a
past...
:23:12
and, you know,
I couldn't relate to anything...
:23:14
other than what I was doing
at the present time...
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and I don't, you know...
:23:20
Didn't matter to me what I said,
you know. It still doesn't, really.
:23:26
He sounded, like, average, I would say.
He wasn't the worst, he wasn't the best...
:23:30
but the repertoire was similar
to everybody else's repertoire...
:23:34
Josh White, Odetta, Belafonte.
:23:36
Right then and there I had no goal
except learning all the songs I could.
:23:55
He was hungry.
You know, hungry in a lot of ways...
:23:57
not just for money, not just for fame...
:23:59
but he was hungry for experience,
for getting out, for doing it...
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for seeing what was out there,
seeing who he could be.
:24:11
He was like a sponge in a way, like...
:24:13
pick up people's mannerisms, accents.
:24:25
I'd forgotten all about the Iron Range,
where I grew up.
:24:28
I'd forgotten about it all.
:24:32
It didn't even enter my mind.
:24:51
Woody Guthrie, he had a particular sound.
:24:54
And besides that, he said something
to go along with his sound.
:24:59
That was highly unusual, to my ears.