Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I still like to play the blues more than anything else.
I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.
So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.
To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy now.'
The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.
There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.
I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think my playing is getting better because of it - not necessarily better on a technical level, but certainly on a level of appropriateness.
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues.
There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.