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

They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

Lightnin' Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up. Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form - the blues.

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.

There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.