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Tom Chapin

"It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself."

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Donna Grant

"It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself."

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Donna Grant

"I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em."

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Donna Grant

"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."

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Donna Grant

"How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know."

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Donna Grant

"The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s."

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Donna Grant

"I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer."

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Donna Grant

"I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up."

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Donna Grant

"Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band."

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Donna Grant

"Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it."

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Donna Grant

"Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them."

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Tom Chapin
"It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself."

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Tom Chapin
"Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition."

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Tom Chapin
"I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers."

Brother

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Tom Chapin
"Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated."

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Tom Chapin
"My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between."

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Tom Chapin
"The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show."

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