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The best artists are gone now.
I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll
Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it
I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll.
Little Walter I would've liked to have played with
Well, one of the best things is workin' with Muddy.
I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.
I think the blues will always be around. People need it.
I like playin' for an audience the best, though, I think
Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.
My mother played piano so we always had music around the house
I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues
I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at.
I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.
T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.
When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.
Every now and then I know it's kinda hard to tell, but I'm still alive and well.
I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12
I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12.
I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.
When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.
The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record
The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.
I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.
Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.
The blues was so big in the late '60s that it kinda wore itself out, and people weren't diggin' the blues as much.
Jimi was always at The Scene when he was in New York and we played many times together. He was just everywhere - he went out and jammed everywhere he was.
There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.
Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.
When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.
I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.
I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.
The Rock'n'Blues Fest is my kind of festival series! It's always great playing shows with my brother and, add to that, all the other great artists and their bands and this should make for one historic round of concerts.