Joe Boyd: preference

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…Last question is simply, what will you do next? Well, I still have a lot of work to do on the book. You may think it’s over now that it’s out, but I spent four months doing the audiobook because my voice is not so great these days. It sounds fine now, but I’ve been doing voice exercises. When I first started the audiobook, after half an hour, 40 minutes of reading, I would start to sound like this, so it took me a long time. It’s 41 hours, the audiobook, and I produced it myself. It’s now up on Amazon in America and Britain. I’m now focused on putting together playlists on my website for people reading the book — because it makes people have to look it up themselves. I’m going to do playlists, make it easy for people. Spotify playlists but also YouTube, which will be much more elaborate, which will have a lot of clips, a lot of little mini documentaries about people — just endless rabbit holes that you can go down. I’m putting that together. That’s a big project. After that, I haven’t really started exploring it. I know there are issues with copyright, but I want to figure out a way that I can play my collection and tell stories about it that people can listen to, whether that’s a radio show or a podcast or whatever. I’ve done that before, that is Joe Boyd’s A–Z, which people can find on my website, which are like 10-minute-long trips through my collection. But this is more ambitious. This would be Joe Boyd’s Big A–Z, two-hour-long segments on things beginning with A. Sounds great. Joe Boyd, thank you very much.…

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