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The Impetus to Write Songs
When did it become obvious we have to write our own songs? I don't know what made Joni Mitchell by clouds. Delong was very inventive. At first he was doing Woody Guthrie imitation and then he developed his own style. He traded in a five string banjo and a Gibson acoustic 12 that Bobby Darrin had given me and got the Rickenbacher. And that became my main instrument for the rest of the birds.