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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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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’ve been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
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Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you’re going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain’t going to touch my stuff.
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And there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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That’s the way I try to live. I think it’s the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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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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My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball’s grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball’s grandfather.
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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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When you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you’re a pleasant person to be around. “Good morning, sir. Did you find everything that you need?
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.
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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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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.
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Find something you would do for free.
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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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I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..
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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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Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you’re the soloist, it’s you, and we follow you. We follow you.
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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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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
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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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If it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
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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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