I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.
I still like to play the blues more than anything else.
I love blues. My grandfather did blues.
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy now.'
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.
I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also will use any gadget or device that I find that helps me achieve the sort of sound on the guitar that I want to get.