When My Dad Died A Lot Of

I Wanted To Be The Writer In The Room Setting Depth Charges Of Feeling Out The World With My Language.you Know, I Had A Very Romantic Idea About That.but I Grew Into Being A Performer.

When I Was 18 Years Old, I Went On The Road With My Dad After I Graduated From High School. And We Were Riding On The Tour Bus One Day, Kind Of Rolling Through The South, And He Mentioned A Song. We Started Talking About Songs, And He Mentioned One, And I Said I Don't Know That One. And He Mentioned Another. I Said I Don't Know That One Either, Dad, And He Became Very Alarmed That I Didn't Know What He Considered My Own Musical Genealogy.

I Don't Do Comparisons Because I Always Lose.

More And More, I See Myself As A Folk Musician, And Someone Who Values Context.

Celtic Music Is Part Of The Language In Scotland And Ireland, Where Every Kid And Grandparent Knows Those Songs, Music By The Likes Of Woody Guthrie And Hank Snow Is Getting Entrenched Here. They Are Part Of Our Cultural Language. It's Part Of A Living Treasure. It Doesn't Just Belong To A Museum.