Sometimes you gotta be an s.o.b., you wanna make a dream reality

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important.

Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland.

My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects.

I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them.

I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.