I think the Knitters were a little more straight-up country than some of those bands, but we were all bringing roots-type sounds to a new audience.
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Prior to that, it was probably more often thought of as that old fuddy-duddy music, that corny old stuff. What we do is corny, too, but it's fun to do. And just because something is corny doesn't mean it doesn't have meaning or significance.John Doe
We would tour the West Coast every four or five years. And every time we would finish we'd say, that was fun, we should do this more often. But until this year we never did anything about it.
John Doe
Restraint can be tough. I've made a point to learn how to make a slow song have as much impact as a fast song. That's a challenge I've given myself, because it's easy to just get out there and blast through a bunch of things and feel as though you're exciting the audience. If you can do that with a slow song, then you really have some variety and some range.
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I don't know of any other band that has two vocalists that can sing together without competition,
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Well, 'help' is the important word there because there were a lot of other bands back in those days doing similar stuff,
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I think we were among the first positive examples of country music for the punk rock audience,
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