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If you haven't heard the music of P.A. Dutch, get ready. You are in for a treat. Few songwriters display this kind of range, whether in style, subject or genre. The gritty, distinctive delivery of P.A. Dutch will capture your heart and your attention. "Unlike a lot of my contemporaries who have played music since they were children, it gripped me instead like some kind of religion in my late twenties, and all the energy that I had previously spent on other interests has become completely focused onto this one singular thing; the study of writing and the writing of songs." The songs of P.A. Dutch have a unique ability to be old and new simultaneously. “I feel strongly that being a good songwriter is not about starting when you are young and learning to write songs, it’s about being a student of life and learning how to translate very subtle feelings onto a piece of paper, having the courage to try it and the tenacity to keep at it until you have some control. One song doesn’t make