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"I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first."
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"I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it."
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"You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works."
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