"Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?"

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Sadly, I wish I had been able to play ["Miner's Prayer"] for [grandfather]. Yeah, I'll never escape the influence of him in my life. And my - his wife, my grandmother, Earlene Tibbs - those experiences with them shaped me musically probably more profoundly than anything else in my life and shaped me as a writer.

— Dwight Yoakam