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The bottom string is tuned to an open G.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Bottom
Strings
String
Tuned
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Things kind of happen organically with me.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Happens
Kind
Me Things Happen
Organically
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I made this record without a record label.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Record
Label
Record Label
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Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?
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Bottom
Lows
Strings
Low
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I love to get people to sing and play together.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
People
Play
Together
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Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Crazy
Kind
Madness
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I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Lefties
Play
Taught
Lefty
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Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Mean
Rewriting
Three
Work Me Three
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The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Hopelessness
Nice
Trying
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I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
One Time
Saws
Speak
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I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Equal
Equal Rights
Rights
Song
Thinking
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A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Kings
Persons
Things Change
Make Up
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I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Men
Long
Woodstock
Time Man Long
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I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
People
Song
Writing
Store
Too Many People
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Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Figures
Gigs
Gig
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I'm not really getting too involved. My position is, Here's the record. I'm at your disposal.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Disposal
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People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Enjoy
Knows
People
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If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Asking
Compare
People
Myself Me People
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I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Sequencing
Producer
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Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it's a different kind of fun.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Different Kind
Ideal
James
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The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Funny
Homework
Real
Real World
School
World Day People
The Real World
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Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
People
Sound
Turns
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It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Administrative
Attorney
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I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Believe
Mean
Spiritual
Considered
God Time Believe
Spiritual Person
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I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Giving
Sat
Song
Stuck
Tape
Today
Writing
Everything Else
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You could put this record on and not get jarred half-way through. I wanted it to be all cut from one cloth, and that was the way we took it through the whole production process.
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Half Way
Cloth
Production
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Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.
Jules Shear / Songwriter
Acoustic Guitar
Acoustics
Guitar
Song
Acoustic
Concept
Picking
Slow
Tempos
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