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DC area lifer here!
I was just a little kid in the mid '70's, but I'm told DC and environs were still kinda "Southern" until the 1980's. Country and bluegrass, the blues and jazz all had a place here on radio and in venues around town I hear.
The hugest influence on me as a musician, maybe as a person, was probably Kim Kane, the rhythm guitarist/auteur of The Slickee Boys, DC's great New Wave/psychedelic/garage/whatever band. Kane lived next door, and seeing the glorious parade of freaks and proto-punks descend on his house every weekend in the staid, stolid, boring old Bethesda MD suburbs warped me for good!
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