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| | The Story of Down the River of Golden Dreams |
 | | Listening to “Black Sheep Boy” and to old songs like “Knoxville Girl,” “Greenback Dollar,” “Furry’s Blues,” and “The Bully,” I was starting to get this idea in my head of a record that wasn’t compassionate, wasn’t moral, was openly an inelegant and ugly mess. |
 | | Most of the songs for the new record were written last February in Bloomington, Indiana. |
 | | I was overjoyed when, during a headline tour, we finally got to work up new songs like “For Real,” “Black,” and “Black Sheep Boy”s III and V. When we got back from tour, we rented a little tin shack by the Austin Bergstrom Internation Airport and immediately started intensive rehearsals for the album. |
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