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Meat Puppets and Neil Young

From American Songwriter, The Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood discusses musical infleunces on the band: Q: When you guys first started, how did you arrive at your sort of country/psychedelic/cow punk sound, when you began playing songs that would have been labeled 'hard core'?Curt Kirkwood: Well we always just did that country thing. We were into Neil Young… a lot of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. Of