Elissa Altman on navigating the Motherland
How We Live Now with Katherine May
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The Importance of Music in My Life
I began playing the guitar when I was four years old and it was one of those things you know certain people are artists and they begin painting when they're children. Guitar was my thing music was my thing and I would spend hours every day playing and I studied for a while with Eddie Simon who was Paul Simon's brother. When I went away to college I started opening for people um opening shows for people who were significantly better musicians than I. And then when I left college moved back to New York and moved back in with my mother she had moved into the city with her second husband, Random House. In 2008 he was very very ill and he took his own life in 2008 and
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