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I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.

I used to be a great blues singer.

My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Billy Boy Arnold records.

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees.

I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

I love blues. My grandfather did blues.