text: okay we we 're very similarly aged so we probably have an interesting interesting perspective on the music on the times so i 'm just a couple years older than you uh essentially i was one of the nerdy types in high school really which meant that i for one reason or another i didn 't pay much attention to music but as i look back now i realize it was very formative for me uh my early popular music interests were in Simon and Garfunkel whom i saw perform when i was in college and i became attached to that style of uh urban urban country if there is such a thing i think with in
  
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  I attended a Simon and Garfunkel performance whilst I was at college .