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Joe Hall is a battered troubadour, a songwriter who keeps plugging away, even though he admits that ''pop music broke my heart a long, long time ago.'(...)
Joe Hall is a battered troubadour, a songwriter who keeps plugging away, even though he admits that ''pop music broke my heart a long, long time ago.'(...)

Joe Hall is a battered troubadour, a songwriter who keeps plugging away, even though he admits that ''pop music broke my heart a long, long time ago.'(...)

Date1/30/1990
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Original Toronto Star caption: Joe Hall is a battered troubadour, a songwriter who keeps plugging away, even though he admits that ''pop music broke my heart a long, long time ago.'' Now he's rising from the ashes of his Continental Drift days and starting a solo career. Whatever it brings, he says, ''I will continue to write songs until I die.''
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Country:Canada
Province or state:Ontario
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