My Morning Jacket's Jim James
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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How to Write to Bob Dylan's Lyrics
There's still four or five songs that I wrote and rerecorded that didn't get released. The beautiful thing about it was is you could feel he wasn't being precious about it because some of these lyrics are hilarious, you know, some of them are goofy,. Some of them are heartbreakingly, crushingly sad, You know, some are the most beautiful poetry you've ever read. Instead of trying to change it too much, I'm just going to let it be what the universe wants it to be.
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