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.

Rock and roll hoochie koo, lawdy mama, light my fuse.

And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy.

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

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

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.