Occupation: Guitarist Birth: February 23, 1944 Death: July 16, 2014
Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it.
I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll.
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 '….
I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12.
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….
When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15..
T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around..
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….
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 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.
I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.