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Luka Bloom Doesn't Want To Be Just Another Boring Folkie

Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 19 March 1992

A STRICT VEGETARIAN, Luka Bloom is right at home at a fanatic health-food restaurant in Manhattan's East Village, where he's outlining the fundamental problem with folk music. "There's millions of guys strumming guitars all over the world," he says, sipping a frosty mug of carrot juice with ginger, "and an awful lot of them are boring the fuckin' pants off people."

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