It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.

I too once belived in the heavier gauge string as a superior tone source. However, thanks to the graciousness of B.B. King I learned that a lighter-gauge string offers superior playing comfort ... try it, you may like it.

ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.