My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.

Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.

You had to pick something like Blue Suede Shoes because it's the flagship of the Sun label, but then I wanted to dig down and find something like Rakin' and Scrapin'.

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

It's really funny, I think to myself... I've got my same guitar and amp, it's just a bigger room now! Some things don't change.

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

The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.