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

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

My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.

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.

So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.

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.

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