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as a young oregonian living & working in the independent music scene, i greatly appreciated this episode. i spend a great deal of time thinking about elliott's life and the music and the way in which music & art interacts with the lives of individual people. i am strongly affected by elliott's music personally, but i am also involved, through my work with distributor CD Baby, in the burgeoning scene of "independent music". this episode points out the fact that this music is made possible by the work that elliott and his fellow musicians did in the 90's and beyond. as the people alive in this world right now struggle to keep alive and make sense of the society and civilization we've inherited, i'm developing faith in the fact that the creation and creative destruction that music makes possible is something more and more of us will turn to. i'm thankful for all that elliott created and destroyed, and I will be following his voice and his lead.

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