When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was always a closet blues player.
I used to be a great blues singer.
When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
I still like to play the blues more than anything else.
I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.
There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.
When I was 15, if anything, I thought I was going to be a Delta bluesman, which is so ridiculous.
I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.
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.
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.