How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

With slide guitar, you're just hanging this piece of glass on your hand. It's a really beautiful instrument in that it's so responsive, you're just slipping your hand back and forth.

I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids.

My career is based on the slow build of an audience based on putting on a good show live and putting out a record every couple of years. I was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.