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VICE: Other than home, where do you feel the most at homeJames Jackson Toth: I guess in a moving vehicle because, you know, beyond home, that’s where I spend most of my time. I’m so lulled by that motion.What vehicle do you have right now?Right now, I drive a 2004 Impala that I really love, and everyone makes fun of me for it, but I just love its utilitarian aspects. There’s something I really, really love about that car. And we also own a Subaru Outback. But usually on tour, I’ll rent something because we need a van. So we have this brief sort of tryst, this love affair with a rented vehicle and then we have to say good-bye.If you were gifted a time machine, where’s the first place you’d go?Well, I would go back rather than forward, I know that. I’d like to see the beginning of civilization, but I’d also like to see Son House and Skip James play live, on the Stovall Plantation. Go see Muddy Waters. But I’d definitely not go forward. I think we are moving too fast as it is.What was the first song you ever covered?The first song I ever covered was “Harvest” by Neil Young, and I covered it very poorly. Very poorly. That’s actually not true. That was the first song on acoustic guitar, but I was in bands—when I was a kid—I remember learning “Twist of Cain” by Danzig. But I can’t say I covered that. I can’t take full credit for that. That was probably when I was 11, and “Harvest” was when I was about 16.
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