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too. It was an 11 or 12 song record, but I don’t have the rights
to it so I could never release it.
A lot of this was me taking care
of my daughter. I’m a single
mom and just trying to get by. I
was trying to get the money together so I could buy the rights
to those records and then ultimately realizing I can’t get the
money, so just make another
one.
It’s a bummer because when
you’re an artist you get taken

advantage of, but what can you
do? All you can do is keep trying. My daughter is 18 now and
getting ready to go to college,
so I’m able to get back and focus
on the music. I’m sure that fathers have the same feeling, but
there is that mother guilt. I sold
all of my guitars, sold all of my
amps — you do what you have
to do to provide for your kid.
And then you hope you haven’t
missed a beat so you can jump
back in the game and hit the

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