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for seeing what was out there,
seeing who he could be.
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He was like a sponge in a way, like...
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pick up people's mannerisms, accents.
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I'd forgotten all about the Iron Range,
where I grew up.
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I'd forgotten about it all.
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It didn't even enter my mind.
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Woody Guthrie, he had a particular sound.
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And besides that, he said something
to go along with his sound.
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That was highly unusual, to my ears.
:25:19
He was a radical,
his songs had a radical slant.
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I thought, "ooh," you know, like...
"That's what I want to sing.
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"I want to sing that".
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I couldn't believe
that I'd never heard of this man.
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You could listen to his songs,
and actually learn how to live.
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One guy said,
"You're singing a Woody Guthrie song".
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He gave me a book that he wrote,
called Bound for Glory, and I read it.
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I identified with that Bound for Glory book...
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more than I even did with On the Road.
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These songs sounded archaic
to most people.