"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 just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around."

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"I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth."

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"Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school."

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"I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!"

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"I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument."

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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."

Age

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

People

"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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"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."

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"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."

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

People

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

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"Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy."

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"The best artists are gone now."

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