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Afton Wolfe – Carpenter - No Depression
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As always, I’d like to start with a bit of background. What music path got you to where you are today and what artists influenced and inspired you?
Afton Wolfe: Like many I knew, I grew up singing in church, and it’s the earliest memory I have – singing a duet with my Mom in a Christmas musical at
State Boulevard Baptist Church in Meridian,
Mississippi. My folks were both musical (met in the marching band), and it was always around me, even more so than I appreciated at the time. I’ve always loved singing, and I started writing poetry or journaling or just releasing the valve on the verbal tank in my mind when I was really young as well. Then I put those together. From there, I became enamored with songs and therefore songwriters. In Meridian, where I went to grade school, we took regular field trips to the