To Sing In A Lower Key Is

At First The Music Almost Repelled Me, It Was So Intense, And This Man Made No Attempt To Sugarcoat What He Was Trying To Say, Or Play. It Was Hard-core, More Than Anything I Had Ever Heard. After A Few Listenings I Realized That, On Some Level, I Had Found The Master, And That Following This Man's Example Would Be My Life's Work.

Risk Is Trying To Control Something You Are Powerless Over.

I Remember Hearing Sonny Terry And Brownie Mcghee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry And Bo Diddley And Not Really Knowing Anything About The Geography Or The Culture Of The Music. But For Some Reason It Did Something To Me - It Resonated.

When I Was In Nashville, Tennessee In 1970 With Derek And The Dominoes, I Went Into This Shop And They Had A Rack Of Strats And Teles - All Going For $100.00 Each. I Bought A Handfull And Made Blackie Out Of The Body From One, The Neck From Another, And So On

It Was Stumbling On To Really The Bible Of The Blues, You Know, And A Very Powerful Drug To Be Introduced To Us And I Absorbed It Totally, And It Changed My Complete Outlook On Music.