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It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.

It's time now for the song that changed my life.

It's a chance to talk to artists who make great music about the music that made them,

them.

This week Singer-songwriter, Dougie Poole.

Dougie Poole is based in Maine and he makes country music.

But it's experimental country music.

I mean there's a lot of pop rock country on the radio, a lot of singer-songwriter-y country

on your local public radio music station.

There's hip-hoppy country, there's throwback country.

But Poole isn't really any of those things.

These records are contemporary and kind of psychedelic, weird and beautiful and also,

like I said, definitely country.

So I guess it isn't that much of a surprise that when we asked him to pick the song that

changed his life, it wasn't Dolly Parton or Garth Brooks or even The Drive by Truckers.

It was a track from the psychedelic noise rock duo, Tone Starts Bandit.

The song is called Black Country and inspired Dougie Poole to make his own records.

I am Dougie Poole and this is the song that changed my life.

The first time I heard this song, it must have been 18 or 19.

I was in college.

I was at a basement show in Providence and let's see, Tone Starts Bandit is Andy and Edwin

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