"Live Music Is Better" bumper stickers should be issued. Every moment on stage is special. The best times are when I cease to be the singer or the musician and become a vehicle for the song.

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Introduced to music through the church and to the guitar through the town bum known as Railroad Spike, Hargis developed a love for traditional music at an early age. Although he didn't pick up the guitar until his mid-twenties, Hargis carried the lessons of his youth with him and when he finally began composing his own works, he combined elements of the spiritual and secular music of his youth with his own poetic vision and personal experiences as a drifter, drunk, and drug addict to craft his own unique style of music which defies classification into any specific genre. Of his music, Hargis remarks, "I don't want to be pigeonholed into any particular category of music. I don't try to be a folk or blues or country or rock singer. The songs tell me what to do, I don't tell them. I just follow the music where it leads."

Woody Guthrie, Townes Van Zandt, Hank Williams, Sr, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Grateful Dead

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