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The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
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Moving
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Made
Touring
Always
Album
Albums
Weird
Along

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