It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

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".

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion. After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience. We kind of made the best of it playing through the first set, took a break and bought him a Coke and then went on to perform for the remainder of the night. It wasn't exactly a catastrophe but it certainly stands as legendary.

It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.