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One of the ballads on the [Easy Roller’s] album — called Maybe — is me trying to do that. When I first got a real book, a book of chords and lead sheets and jazz standards, I remember trying to learn God Bless the Child sketchily on the piano. Billie Holiday’s version is the defining one — she co-wrote it. Back when I was getting going, it was well-known artists like that — I guess that’s just where you start. I remember having a lot of Billie Holiday CDs in the house as a kid. The CDs would have been
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