Turn on, tune up, rock out.

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

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

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

Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

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.