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Duke Special - The Man
His own early attempts at song-writing, he admits, weren't up to much. This changed when he heard Canadian folkie Bruce Cockburn. "He had this thing that you could sing songs about the light or you could sing songs about things the light enabled you to see. That was a big turning point in my writing because I realised I was much more interested and comfortable with writing about what was going on inside me as opposed to me singing about other people." As he got older, he began to listen to people such as Tom Waits and Johnny Cash, Van Morrison and Elvis Costello. "You realise that things are a lot less black and white. There's a lot of grey and that produces some fascinating songs." Top
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