“I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.”
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Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
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