'Music Confounds the Machines': T Bone Burnett's Keynote Speech at AmericanaFest
Everyone's talking about the great speech T Bone Burnett gave as the keynote address to AmericanaFest yesterday. If you missed it, here's the transcript (posted with permission from the Americana Music Association):
I have come here today first to bring you love. I have come here
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Yes,
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