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Linda's in all the songs. 'Sunshine Superman,' 'Hampstead Incident,' 'Young Girl Blues'... Linda's the muse.
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.
I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.
The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals.
The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings.
I could fall asleep at 10:30 watching 'Hill Street Blues.' I might wake up at 1 A.M. and have a riff in my head.
You literally cannot deny the fact that rock and roll was born because of blues, and blues is black man's music.
Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.
I was part of that whole early Moody Blues transitioning from a sort of R&B-blues band to being more progressive.
It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
I really want to concentrate of the blues again and do it properly, which is something I feel I didn't do before.
I love jazz and blues, where there's a structure, but a lot of the cool stuff is veering off the page and playing.
I love the language of, you know, the old black country man with a blues guitar and... boots and the quick banter.
I prefer a heart player; I prefer someone like a blues player, like Jeff Healey. Jeff Healey I think is tremendous.
To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy now.'
My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.
What did we play in the Harry Dean Stanton Band? It was old blues and country - all covers. I never wrote anything.
I met musician Ken Farmer in Lorne and he lent me all of his Bessie Smith blues LPs. That's when I started to sing.
When there's an imbalance in terms of what people get to hear, then that's negative. Then blues, jazz, it will die.
There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins.
When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta.
The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.
I know that Filipinos will enjoy 'Gangnam Blues' because it has a universal message that will resonate with everyone.
I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.
'Post 9/11 Blues' is an observational satire about the surreal circus of fear at that time. It's a generational thing.
One critic called me nothing but a blues singer, as though that was a slight. That is the highest compliment there is.
Cinderella obviously got caught up in the hair metal scene, but they were such a blues band. And such a good live band.
I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.
If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might be black-ish.
I'm very fortunate that I really like acting, but it's not all I want to do. I love to sing. I love blues. I love jazz.
Even though I was a rock 'n' roll fan, hearing the raw blues was like listening to music on a much deeper kind of level.
Soul and blues were a definite influence on me. It was raw and naked emotion which you didn't get much where I come from.
I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
I'm a blues guy at heart, so silly music isn't generally what I do. I'm a I'll-cry-as-my-guitar-gently-weeps kind of guy.
The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!
Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.
Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
I did a lot of 'NYPD Blues' and 'Law & Orders' and a couple of other ones that were shot in New York earlier in my career.
My form of rebellion was starting to play guitar. I was 13. The first song I played was 'Lovesick Blues' by Hank Williams.
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.
That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.
I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
I was a big Pretty Purdie fan. I have heavy rhythm and blues influences, and that is what I bring to the table with Aerosmith.
In a funny way, the illness spurred me on. I thought to myself, 'I've got to get through this operation to make a blues album.'
Jimi Hendrix came from the blues, like me. We understood each other right away because of that. He was a great blues guitarist.
The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music, and they don't play the blues.