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Westword: Last year you attended the Huun Huur Tu show at Swallow Hill. How did you become familiar with their work, and what first got you interested in traditional non-western music? Or folk music outside of America in general?
David Eugene Edwards: I can't remember, to be honest with you, where I first heard them. More than likely, I heard them on some sort of radio show or something. I don't know where I would have been. It could have been online or...I don't know. I've always listened to traditional music ever since I was a young teenager.
At first I was mainly interested in American music -- bluegrass or mountain music and Native American music. You start listening to that, and it takes you in a lot of different directions. It takes you to Scandinavia, Germany, you know wherever the people are and the influence that they bring to American culture. That's how I discovered it all.
01/14/11
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