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From an April 2008 interview with Jens Lekman on NPR’s Talk of the Nation:
MATT: I used to cover one of your songs called “A Sweet Summer’s Night on Hammer Hill.”
LEKMAN: Oh, wow.
MATT: Yeah. I love that song. And we actually, you know, in the course of learning the song and, you know, the intricacies and nuances of it, we kind of discovered that the chord progression, if not identical, was similar to “Heatwave” ... So, it just gave me kind of a new lens to look at you through. And I was just wondering, what was it that really inspires you? What do you listen to to make you sound the way you do?
LEKMAN: I listen to whatever I find in these cheap flea markets in - the once where you can get 10 records for $1. And I think I must have picked up a Martha and the Vandellas’ record somewhere there in one of the bins, yeah, for sure.
