Jay Farrar Quotes
There's an immediacy and a starkness that's there. I think a lot of Leadbelly's arrangements and his use of the 12-string guitar were atypical, especially the 12-string, which showed his individuality. I guess he approached it that way because the 12-string was louder. Leadbelly and the punk rock aesthetic - maybe there are some similarities there. 
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I think we've both gone through that period -- people yelling out for my songs at his shows and yelling for his songs at my shows, but that's kinda died down.
- Jay Farrar
It was a hugely devastating situation for me. I mean, I felt like I had been working hard for a month and a half to make it happen, and then to have it kind of be sprung on me like a surprise... it was devastating. I think it's probably ultimately reflective of how as people we'd all... changed over the last four years or so that I had been doing [solo] records. I guess the whole dynamic of the band had changed and people had developed different priorities, I think.
- Jay Farrar