I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping … - Ketch Secor

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I do make a conscious effort to bring energy every day. Have fun, keep stuff light, all of that stuff.

Ketch Secor

I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen into a deep ink well. That's the folk music tradition. Like Pete Seeger said, 'Everyone's a link in the chain. ' It's a strong chain, so rely on it. . . . I believe it takes all those great songs in the past to make your song even a little bit good.

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It’s bound to be one hell of a steel wheelin, railroadin good time…while the western country rolls by and the smoke rises blacker than musical notes pouring out of that stoked-up-and-chuggin iron chariot.

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We never had a girl in the band. Why? Certainly there's some rippin' female players in our kind of music. We have no objection to it. It'd be wonderful.

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