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Steve Kruger

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About Me

I am a folklorist and an ex-trout salesman. I love playing music. I also love very old things, booze, swimming and dogs. I hate ceilings and acid reflux. I live in beautiful Boone North Carolina the best frickin bubble in america. I play fiddle in an old time band sometimes known as the Wehutty Mudpuppies.

My Interests

Anything in moderation, most things in excess,

I'd like to meet:

a dinosaur

Music:

Southern Music, old time, blues and jazz from the 20s 30s and 40s, early rock n roll, soul and country anything strange and from the heart. Specifically: Camp creek Boys, Fred Cockerham Tommy Jarrell Wade Ward Skillet Lickers Watauga/Ashe County musicians such as Gaither Carlton, Doc Watson, Frank Blevins, GB Grayson and Tab Ward, Iron and Wine, Pavement, Wilco, Nick Drake,Tom Waits, Skip James, John Hurt, Gus Cannon, Henry Thomas, Hank Williams, Nirvana, neutral Milk Hotel, Neko Case, Duke Ellington, Faron Young, Lefty Frizell, Bob Wills James Brown, Del the Funky Homosapien, The Boss, Memphis Minnie, Billy Holiday, Gram Parsons Roscoe Holcomb the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan the Grateful Dead, Bukka White, Eck Robertson, the Hammons Family, Carter Family, Memphis Jug Band, Beck, Radiohead, Aphex Twin, Fela Kuti, U2, REM, Banana De Terra, Freight Hoppers, Bill Monroe, Otis Redding, Curtis Mayfield, Enya (yeah that's right, Enya), Gillian Welch, Talking Heads, Velvet Underground, Otis Redding blahblahblah

Movies:

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Television:

Mr Belvedere, You can't do that on Television.

Books:

Once We Moved Like the Wind, Memory of Fire, Old Atlases, Middlesex, Book of laughter and Forgetting,Cracking India,Geek Love, Last Temptation of Christ, Landscapes Painted in Tea, Things Fall Apart, Maniac Magee, The Hidden Dimension, Serpent and the Rainbow, Grapes of Wrath, Those little pamphlets about the end of the world, The Question of Bruno, I Claudius, Master and Margarita, Pablo Neruda, Blindness, 100 years of Solitude, Safe Area Gorazde, Catch 22, Written on the Body, God of Small Things, Ray Carver, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest etc etc

Heroes:

See Music, also John Henry, Geronimo, St Francis, and my grandfather, anyone who gets their shit done, the ebola virus