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Iron & Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth

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I've Found You, American Mouth, Big Bill, Blue

I liked the idea of reflecting on yourself as someone diving too deep for things that you were after. I was also really into Alan Ginsburg at the time, and some of the other beat poets,. A lot of incongruous images thrown up against each other. That's an acoustic electric guitar with a tool called the EBO. It basically makes the string vibrate the way a violin would.

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