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You're listening Sound Opinions and this week we'll do a classic album

dissection of the 1982 X album under the big black son. I'm Jim D. Rigatis and I'm Greg

Khan but first X vocalist, bassist, solo artist and actor John Doe.

We want to welcome John Doe to the show, great new solo album out 40 plus years of history.

It's like almost daunting John to chat with you because we don't even know where to start but

welcome to Sound Opinions. Well thank you and you may start wherever you choose. You already

started at the most important place. Yeah, why don't we chat about that and then on Sound Opinions

we do these classic album dissections when there's an album that changed Greg's life, my life

and there's a significant date but I want to talk about the newest stuff first. That's a great idea.

I can roll this into where I am and what inspired this record. Yeah, you're in Chicago, right?

No, I am in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Oh, okay, I heard you were spending some time here. No, I'm in Tulsa

and it's because they're opening the Bob Dylan Center. I got invited here because I wrote a

thousand words or so on a record which also inspired or was part of the inspiration for this new record.

A Bob Dylan record. Which one? John Wesley Harding. Ah, okay. The new solo album is

Fables in a foreign land. It's raw, it's Rootsie, it is just a great record, John. Congratulations.

Is that a raw Rootsie record? Yes, it is. It sounds like a fat, possum record. You know, they did

the last X record and you're putting the solo album out with them. Some impressive guests,

Louis Perez from Los Lobos. So what's the Dylan connection? I don't know exactly how, probably because

I got to be part of the music cares show that Bob picked all the people that were going to be

singing and participating in that and I was lucky enough to get chosen. And we've met each other

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