The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record

I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12

The blues was so big in the late '60s that it kinda wore itself out, and people weren't diggin' the blues as much.

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.

Little Walter I would've liked to have played with

Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.

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.