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 love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at.

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

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

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

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

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.