It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.
In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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".
There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
I probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.