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How did the song fit with the rest of the music in the show. Where does it fit with the rest of your output over the years?

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/How does it fit with the rest of your output over the years? I’ve seen you on stage a few times and every time I see you it seems to be different.

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It is a very distinctive song, which leads me to the subject of one artist covering another’s songs. Do you think artists are the best singers of their own songs?

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When you look for a song from somebody else, as you do every so often, what sort of songs do you gravitate towards? What makes you choose them, and which songs have you chosen?

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You seem to be going in the opposite direction from the modern technology with the insistence on magic. Do you think it is increasingly necessary to balance ourselves that way now?

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What is your current group line-up?

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By what process does a group like this evolve? You didn’t wake up one morning and think the perfect ensemble for me is.... How did it all come about?

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It all sounds very integrated on-stage, but do you find any resistance in the audience or from club owners because you do have such an unusual line-up?

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The job of an artist is, obviously, to communicate, just as some peoples’ job is to sweep the streets or drive a taxi. At which point does the promotion get in the way of what you want to say? At which point does the efficiency of the message just become a little too mechanical?

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Would it be ideal for you to get a major record deal, or do you think that would provide even more distractions?

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What proportion of your time do you find dedicated to the distractions of promotion? How do you spend your time? How does a downtime artist function?

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How do you go about writing a song? Some people sit down and write a song by nailing themselves to a chair and waiting until it comes. Some people seem to put it out fully formed. Is there such a thing as a song which just comes in ten minutes?

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What would be your great songs of all-time list, and why would you think they were great songs?

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It’s funny that you should pick that song, because, when Dr. John sings the original, he mumbles so much, and has such a thick accent, so many people sing many different lyrics. What sort of mistranslations have you experienced when people get the mood of a song and then start imposing their own words on it?

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That song now must be thirty-five years old. What do you think is it that makes a song timeless and that can enable it to exist in different surroundings and different social circumstances?

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In order to communicate there has to be some common point between the audience and the artist. How far do you think it’s possible to push an extreme style to, say, a typical downtown audience before they don’t get it? You mentioned earlier about the timeless quality of certain songs which can exist in different styles, but we see a lot of songs just emerging within a style because that happens to be it at the moment.

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Do you think that recently there has been much more of a tendency to gift-wrap rather than to have a real thing inside the box?

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