I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.

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

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.

I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.

Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it

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.

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.