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    The Squirrel Barkers always have a special place in my heart.

    Heart | Special | Squirrel


    I loved playing the stuff we did in the Byrds. It was a good band. I was lucky to be in it.

    Good | Lucky | Loved


    I was a lucky kid. You could have got 10 kids to be in The Byrds who were better than I was.

    Lucky | Kid | Byrds


    My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.

    Dad | Journalism | Awards


    The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.

    Step | Rock | Further


    When I was playing bluegrass, I was living down in West Hollywood - starving.

    Hollywood | Starving | West


    You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church.

    Church | Sing | Choir


    All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.

    Music | Foundation | Along


    Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.

    Great | Innocence | View


       

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