
Justin Townes Earle: In Memoriam
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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The Good Life
Hank Williams introduced the 12 bar blues to country music. He saw Emmett Miller when he was down in Louisiana. Adam Miller did ragtime. I think he was a blackface performer. Old Menstrual Show kind of thing. But you know what? We're Hank Williams. Think about country before Hank Williams, right? And it was just like, Oh, yes. And we're going to this and all on top of the beat. Now that it wasn't good, but it was all on topof a beat.
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