... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock & Roll) ... you can really tell on some tracks ... they were actually afraid at times of what they were playing. But Rock & Roll definitely didn't come before that time; it started right there

I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did.

The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why.

I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.

I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period.

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.