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and I used to have giant arms—looked like trees—and it ate all the muscles in my

arms. Now, I’ve got little old skinny arms and I'm not even strong enough to mash
the strings down. But I can still sing. I can still sing.

BiTS: Tell me how you went about making this album, “It Came From The Swamp”.

Old recordings, I guess, that you remixed.

OKD: Yes, that's all off of different
stuff from the whole span of my

whole career.

BiTS: Yeah, yeah.

OKD: We just took songs from

here, there, and yonder, because all
of my albums have some swamp
stuff on it, because that's one of my

things; kind of being a cross
between Tony Joe White and
Creedence Clearwater. That's one

of my deals. Creedence was a big
influence on me, and so was Tony
Joe White, and then I've naturally

just came from the swamp anyway.

BiTS: Let me just ask one more
question. Where do you see your life going now, Omar?

OKD: Well, I'm really disabled in that I can't get around. I can't really walk. So I have
to stay at home most of the time. But we work at home every day on music. Me and

my wife write songs. She goes over the catalogue and puts stuff together, and we
decide what we want to do.

And people call, want me to come play all over the world. They say, when are you

coming back to Sweden? When are you coming back to Norway? When are you
coming back to England? When are you coming back to Holland? It's like, I'm not
coming back, I can't. I couldn't even hold up enough to get on a plane.

BiTS: That's awful.

OKD: I couldn't go through the line where you got to stand in. In Austin, you have
to stand in a line for an hour just to get to the place to go to the gate. I can't even

walk through the gate when I got over there, you know. So I can't really play
anymore. I don't play live. I can't play guitar. I'd have to have a band with a great
guitar player in it and all I could do would be sit in a chair and sing.

BiTS: Over the years you must have done some enormous gigs. What's the gig that's
outstanding to you?