If you've been playing for a few years...especially in a group context... you'll see if you have the ability ... or the passion to want to carry on. It's something that you have to be dedicated to ...and you've got to love ..no matter what happens.

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed

These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues

If you've been playing for a few years...especially in a group context... you'll see if you have the ability ... or the passion to want to carry on. It's something that you have to be dedicated to ...and you've got to love ..no matter what happens.

I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.