John Oates
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"John William Oates" is an United States/American Rock music/rock, Rhythm and blues/R&B and Soul music/soul guitarist, musician, songwriter and producer best known as half of the Rock music/rock and Soul music/soul duo, Hall & Oates (with Daryl Hall).

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I think what we realized was that we would do songs that either had a personal connection to us or a professional connection to us.

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[Which is why it's spectacularly appropriate that The Funk Brothers - Motown's original house band - are opening up for Hall & Oates.] It's a great bill, ... We're carrying on their tradition. So we'll see when we get into Montreal if we're going to play a few songs together.

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This music is like an old friend, one for whom you will always feel a kinship and closeness. When people hear this recording they will understand more clearly the roots of our original songs and perhaps have a bit more insight into where they really came from.

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It keeps us loose. You go out here and everybody's intense and the expectations are so big, it just relaxes us a little bit. It helps take our minds off of things a little bit.

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The idea was to take these great songs, take them out of their production style and their dated recording style, and show them for the songs that they are--as if you had just played them on an acoustic guitar. It's all about timeless songwriting, really.

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The purpose of this communication is a heads-up.

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I think we've always prided ourselves and perceived ourselves as songwriters, so it wasn't an album that we felt we had to do, ... But we knew that some day we'll do an album like that, and it will be fun. That's what it was really about. It was just the right time to do it.

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We get a lot of the new songs in, but we play a lot of the old classics and even some stuff that people don't expect.

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