He remembers finding someone’s copy of Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited on vinyl. He was nine years old, and within a few days he had memorized all the words to “Desolation Row.” It was the moment when he realized that songs aren’t just tunes with words: they’re worlds that can be inhabited fully, worlds filled with strange characters, unexpected emotions, and lessons to be learned. He was nine years old, and it was that year that he learned to play guitar and begin dreaming up song worlds of his own.


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