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" I don't want to be one of those people saying, 'Remember when things were better?' "
Robbie Robertson
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Music
Beginning
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Spot
Indian
" The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to folk music to on and on and on and on and putting them all in this big pot and mixing up a new gumbo. "
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Holiday
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