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When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.
Ray LaMontagne
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Ray LaMontagne
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: June 18
Guitarist
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Nashua
New Hampshire
Raymond Charles Jack LaMontagne
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