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"In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I don't think a lot has been done to chronicle the relations between American history and where black music fits in."
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Source: Tom Waits (2007). “The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983”, Ecco
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