The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.
The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters. - Alexis Korner
The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.
- Alexis Korner
In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues. - Alexis Korner
In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.
If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvis… - Alexis Korner
If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvis…
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz. - Alexis Korner
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.
Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished. - Alexis Korner
Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.
I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one. - Alexis Korner
I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it. - Alexis Korner
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.
I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason f… - Alexis Korner
I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason f…
I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do. - Alexis Korner
I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.
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