"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."

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"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."

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"I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues."

People

"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."

Love

"Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it."

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"I think the blues will always be around. People need it."

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"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."

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"When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15."

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"The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record."

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"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."

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"I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12."

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"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."

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