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knows a thing or two about the folk music scene. Maybe that's why so many critics and music enthusiasts alike love his new book, "Revival".

Journalist, folk musician and author Scott Alarik (Photography by Asia Kepka)

Alarik is a journalist, folksinger and author who grew up in Minnesota. He covered folk music in the Boston Globe for over 20 years and also spent many a night playing music in the Minneapolis West Bank scene of the late sixties and seventies.

Recently Alarik spoke to Heartland Radio's Mike Pengra. 

He said while the characters in his new novel are fictional, their lives are based on the experiences of musicians he's known.

the rest of Scott Alarik's interview here

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