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I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there. It's not going anywhere. The blues is always going to be relevant.

I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.