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

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.

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

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

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'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.

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.