It happened after Jazz Fest in ‘95. They had hired me to be a roving minstrel in the artist area and after the festival all the sudden I couldn’t hear anything through my left ear. About a month later, the right went out too. I would just sit in my car and try to listen to the radio, but I couldn’t even tell what song was on. It was devastating. The doctor said it was a hereditary hearing loss. I’m eighty percent deaf in both ears. There was nothing they could do to fix it.  
       I got a hearing aide right after that. I could make out conversation, but I still couldn’t hear pitch. I couldn’t listen to music, I couldn’t play guitar. Everything sounded out of tune, like a screeching cat. For ten years, I didn’t play music at all. I sold my guitars. For my whole life I was a musician, and then all the sudden it was taken from me...

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