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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.