I mean, what 16-year-old is going to listen to Doc Watson?

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'.

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

I mean, what 16-year-old is going to listen to Doc Watson?

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.

Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions

Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.