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"I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell."
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"One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?"

"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."

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"And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find."

"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns."

"My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion."

"I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad."

"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."
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