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She Can Sing For Miles And Miles: Petra Haden

Erik Himmelsbach, LA CityBeat, 30 June 2005

WHEN I WAS SINGLE, I had a litmus test for first dates: If a woman could tolerate my musical taste, she was worth a second look. I know, it was an unforgiving audition, and I was a tough crowd. Needless to say, I ran off a handful of otherwise sensible women by taking them to gigs that, for them, may have been akin to water torture.

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