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As you might expect, he writes mostly about Alaska. “I love the people,” he says, the
beauty. I've seen a lot of changes in the last thirty years, most of them not for the better.
We used to have a lot of freedom.”
It doesn't slow him down any. “I'll sing till I drop,” he says. “When all you do is fish
and sing, you're gonna die either fishing or singing. Either way's gotta be okay.”
I don't know. He sings Bob Dylan's “Forever Young” like he wrote it himself, 'May
you stay forever young,' his voice filling the Sluice Box up to the rafters, spilling out onto
the midway, drowning out whoever's on stage at the Borealis Theater.
May Hobo Jim stay forever young.
