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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.

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I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room.
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Let that get you up in the morning and put the light in your eyes. I’m telling you, it makes you a better husband, mother, father, neighbor, citizen.
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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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I was age six or seven, and singing, “Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him,” and people smiled and pinched my cheeks till the blood vessels broke, and I knew I was doing something right.
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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles.
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I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.
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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
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So given those things yes, I’m introducing some new music that people haven’t really heard me do in quite this fashion.
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