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

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.

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

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

My grandfather is a blues musician.

I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.