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

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".

My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there's an invisible presence of a stream of ever-flowing creativity that we overhear-all you have to do is pull up the antenna and dial it in. This presence allows you to maintain your sense of origin and move forward.

I probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.

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

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

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