Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.
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I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever.Brownie McGhee
From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto.
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When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.
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I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.
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I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.
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