circumstances, I realized it was
time for me to grow up and do
other things. I moved to Colorado
and left the east coast. I basically
stopped working. I lived in the
mountains, met a gal, had a kid,
built a house - did all the things I
thought were missing in my life.
That led me back to music and
when I came back to music in the
late nineties it was with a different
approach. I was no longer just
limited to the Hall & Oates
experience. There were other
things and that was a catalyst to
my move to Nashville as well.
Once I did that, the past started
to come back and the possibility
of me tapping into my earliest
influences became a reality.”
Oates considers himself to be a
student of American traditional
music. With that said, Arkansas
is like his dissertation. He was
already saavy about who did what
in music history, but this project
led him to dig deeper. He began
to research not just the music put
out by Mississippi John Hurt but
the music that influenced him
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