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Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.

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Lightnin’ Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up.
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Art Believe Coffee
Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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Out Rocks Roll Tunes
We kind of made the best of it playing through the first set, took a break and bought him a Coke and then went on to perform for the remainder of the night. It wasn’t exactly a catastrophe but it certainly stands as legendary.
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Break Catastrophe Music Perform Playing Took
It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go ’round and ’round.
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Contraptions Different Mp3 Music Player Round
White people get nervous and speed things up. You don’t have to be in a hurry because you ain’t got nothing to gain and you ain’t got nothin’ to lose. And that’s where the groove lies.
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Lying People White
The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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Band Enough Quitting
No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.
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Ahead Miles No Plugged Plugging
Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won’t vanish, but let’s face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.
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Media Past Seemingly Way
Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
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Amsterdam Country Experiments Way
One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion.
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Country Night Promoted Spring Well
After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience.
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Audience Curtain Customer Open Playing Realized
Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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Causes Ems Ugly
It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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Character Important Unusual
In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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Bigger Radio Tabletop
Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder?
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Games Play Water
Every once in awhile I’ll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
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Chords Country Found Guitar People

Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.

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