The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.

I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.