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“His assemblages often took the to, the musicians who inspired hi Lightening Hopkins, Howli the Louvin

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The American flag itself appears that, in spite of the bleak po him the energy and artistic int

so admired “The American flag

together,” Taupin says. “It’s wh emblematic, it

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regularly in the work, an emblem litical moment, still recalls for egrity of the music he’s always

g is the glue that binds them all

hat I put in there because it’s so ’s so powerful.”

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“I grew up embracing sub-genr music, Delta blues, urban blue

“Those were the things that w

thing that I ultimately did. But t

seem to be fading from the lan them as a sort of musical archa genres

Bernie

res of American music: country s, gospel, folk music,” he says.

were the inspiration for every-

they’re also musical genres that

ndscape … My pieces, I think of eology. I’m trying to keep these alive.”

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Taupin creates with more pow

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wer tools than paints or brushes.

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“That’s my feeling about the Am ‘under wraps’ a little. We misuse cal gain … It’s fallen into the mu was under the floorboards in pris … It was always pulled out. I do

durability of the flag… Think of ho been battered and bruised,

Bernie

merican flag. There are times it’s it. We use it for the wrong politid. It was in the rubble on 9/11. It on camps in Germany and Japan n’t think people understand the

ow old it is. It’s been around, it’s but it’s always come back.”

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