| What music are you currently grooving to?
| The new Pavement. I have Let It Be by The Replacements with me, and
I'm really into Yma Sumac right now.
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| What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album?
| The first Rickie Lee Jones album. It really has a great groove that
so few albums catch with studio musicians. I love that sound; it
just feels so right.
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| What was the first record you bought, and where did you buy it?
| Pink Floyd, thinking it was The Pink Panther - I didn't read well
when I was about four or five. I listened to every single song on
The Wall thinking it was The Pink Panther singing it, which is
very sick, haha, strutting around...I bought it in a supermarket
in Anchorage in Alaska where I grew up.
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| Which musician (other than yourself) have you ever wanted to be?
| Boy, a million of them. Didn't work, though. I really loved Nina
Simone but over everybody, Ella Fitzgerald - not so much her life,
but definitely her voice.
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| What do you sing in the shower?
| Opera music. I love Puccini. And a lot of baroque stuff - I love
Monteverdi. And Aaron Copland lullabies, like All The Blue Horses,
are very pretty.
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| What is your favourite Saturday night record?
| Something very quiet. Last Saturday at the Blue Shamrock in Ireland
I heard some beautiful traditional guitar and penny flute.
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| And your favourite Sunday morning record?
| Cello concertos - Elgar's played by Jacqueline Du Pre is beautiful.
And Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. And Pleased To Meet Me by The
Replacements is great on both Saturday nights and Sunday mornings.
Leo Kottke I like too. I love his voice; it's very comical. He's
really coming into his own; his writing too.
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