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The Relationship Between Folk Music and Folk Songs
I was going to high school in Chicago and my music teacher invited Bob Gibson to come over and play a 45-minute set on the five-string banjo. He did all this fancy picking and telling stories about the songs. And I just loved it. Before that, I'd been to Elvis and Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Rockabilly,. Johnny Cash, the Everly Brothers. But when Gibson did that, it made me run up to my music teacher and ask, what kind of music is that? And she said, it's folk music. Unbelievable. It's so beautiful.