If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.
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T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.
I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer.
Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it into a love song... Thank God for country music.
I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.
It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.
For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.
I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.
T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.
There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.
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