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It's the Sound of Young America, I'm Jesse Thorn, my guest this week is the singer, songwriter,

producer and multi-instrumentalist Raphael Seddi.

Here's a song from his brand new album called The Way I See It.

The track is Love That Girl.

You can tell by a smile, such a love child, and every name in this play will love to be in

the song.

It's the Sound of Young America, I'm Jesse Thorn, my guest on the program is Raphael Seddi.

He's spent about 20 years in the music industry, first as a member of the Groundbreaking Act,

Tony, Tony, Tony, then later as a solo artist and as a producer, bordering on super producer,

his brand new album The Way I See It captures the sound of the soul music of the 1960s, almost

effortlessly, although I presume a lot of effort went into it.

Raphael, welcome to the Sound of Young America.

It's good to be here, man.

It's a pleasure to have you, sir.

Your original instrument was a bass.

Yeah, correct.

And I still tend to think of you as a bass player, first and foremost, do you still think

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