Occupation: Guitarist Birth: February 23, 1944 Death: July 16, 2014
Every now and then I know it's kinda hard to tell, but I'm still alive and well..
My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.
The best artists are gone now..
I think the blues will always be around. People need it..
I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician..
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..
When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues..
I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues..
I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at..
I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12.
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….
Little Walter I would've liked to have played with.
Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it.
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 '….
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….
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 Bl….
I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll.
When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15..
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 b….
T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around..
I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.