There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer.

I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business.

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.