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It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

Billy Gibbons

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
Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
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Driven Process Song
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
Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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Out Rocks Roll Tunes
In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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Bigger Radio Tabletop
Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life’s simple pleasures.
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Browser Flipping Online Pleasures
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
Lightnin’ Hopkins taught us, “the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel” and Muddy Waters taught us “you don’t have to be the best one; just be a good ‘un” .. that just about says it all, always strive to be a good ‘un.
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Faster Mudy Music Taught Water
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
If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
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Helping Particular Take Time
Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form – the blues.
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Blues Country Embracing English Great
They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film… a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
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Film Matter Mirrors
Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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Causes Ems Ugly
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
Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
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Amsterdam Country Experiments Way

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