Little Walter I would've liked to have played with

I like playin' for an audience the best, though, I think

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

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

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.

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.

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