When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.