Citizen Cope
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"Clarence Greenwood" is an American songwriter, producer and performer. His music is a mix of blues music/blues, soul music/soul, folk music/folk, and rock music/rock. He has been touring professionally for ten years. Citizen Cope’s compositions have been recorded by artists as varied as Carlos Santana, Dido (singer)/Dido, Pharoahe Monch and Richie Havens. He currently records and produces for his own record label, Rainwater Recordings, which he founded in 2010 after deciding not to work with major labels any longer. He had previously been signed to Capitol Records/Capitol, Arista Records/Arista, DreamWorks Records/DreamWorks and RCA Records/RCA.

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Just because you get a record deal doesn't mean you're even going to put out a record.

If I condone that kind of journalism, she's going to be in Iraq one day, so is that how she's going to prepare for something of importance?, ... If someone comes in and is not familiar with what I'm doing, then they're doing me a disservice and themselves and their readers.

Someone asked me the other day if it was easier breaking into rap or rock, ... I don't know, I haven't broken in on either one, you know.

There's new young bands out there that just have incredible, really great songs.