You Were Never Much Of A Dancer

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Here is what she says... Around the age of eight, a significant event occurred: my mother gave me a cassette of Nevermind by Nirvana. Being so young, I wasn't really interested in music before, but I had a My First Sony cassette player with which I listened to audiobooks. In short, I inserted the cassette, pressed play, and what I heard completely overwhelmed me. I don't know what it was in that wall of sound that captivated me so much, but I spent hours running around the house, hyperactive, with headphones on, the volume turned up, and Nevermind on repeat. It was for Christmas or my birthday that year that I asked for a guitar. I spent my entire adolescence playing guitar or drums in various punk and rock bands in the Welsh valleys, but at that time, I also started seriously listening to older bands like Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and others. Thanks to those cheap compilations that were available at the time, I discovered that these musicians shared a common influence: delta blues and pre-war country blues, as well as Appalachian music. Eventually, I came across Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, and Roscoe Holcomb, who became the trio of musicians I dreamed of imitating. I eventually found a bluesman in Cardiff who could give me lessons, and it was by studying these musicians that I discovered John Fahey and the whole American Primitive movement.