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I grew up listening to spiritual music, blind willie johnson and folk.
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I Grew Up Listening To Spiritual Music,

Ben Harper
I grew up listening to spiritual music, blind willie johnson and folk.
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I grew up with the blind boys' music. my family owns a music store in claremont, california, called the claremont folk music center. i grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional american music.
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Wandering around back stage at a willie nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the ferris wheel. it's not the best seat in the house, but you see enough lights, action, people, and confusion to make you wonder if anybody knows what the hell's going on. if you're sitting out front, of course, it all rolls along as smoothly as a german train schedule, but as willie, like any great magician, would be the first to point out, the real show is never in the center ring. as willie always says, fortunately, we're not in control.
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Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. we wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. a folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. a folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. it depends on who's playing and who's listening.
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In the united states, many people said you can't have folk music in the united states because you don't have any peasant class. but the funny thing was, there were literally thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people who loved old time fiddling, ballads, banjo tunes, blues played on the guitar, spirituals and gospel hymns. these songs and music didn't fit into any neat category of art music nor popular music nor jazz. so gradually they said well let's call it folk music.
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All i want is to become someone new. in this case, tobias johnson, son of evelyn johnson. tobias johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that i am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.
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Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. the blind don't act any different than you or i. you never see a blind person going around saying, 'i'm blind.' so if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.
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