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ARTIST: Demos Papadimas
SONG: “Barrier Doors”
BIRTHDATE: June 10, 1985
HOMETOWN: Warren, OH
CURRENT LOCATION: Warren, OH
AMBITIONS: The next great song and a great marketing campaign to go with it TURN-OFFS: Fascists, phonies, and philistines
TURN-ONS: Compassion, creativity, and consideration
TURN-OFFS: Fascists, phonies, and philistines
DREAM GIG: A showcase slot at the 2014 Americana Music Association Conference and Festival in Nashville, Tennesssee
FAVORITE LYRIC: “What makes things this way? What makes things that way? Which way if any way is right? / Well I’m alone with my friends, down in my sin, in the gutter drinkin’ Dixie again” –Gill Landry
CRAZIEST PERSON I KNOW: Just one? An anonymous family member
SONG I WISH I WROTE: Leonard Cohen’s “Tower of Song”
5 PEOPLE I’D MOST LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH: Bob Dylan (for inspiration), Leonard Cohen (for consolation), Nick Tosches (for documentation), Larry David (for comic relief) and Vinicio Capossela (for a European perspective)
MY FAVORITE CONCERT EXPERIENCE: Bob Dylan and Paul Simon. Camden, NJ 7/17/99–it was the beginning of a new world for me
I WROTE THIS SONG: in France, Greece, and Ohio. Inspired by late nights, lingering love, and Mediterranean sounds.
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