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"I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years."

Mose Allison, American Musician

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"I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years."

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"I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years."

Mose Allison, American Musician

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"Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in."

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