When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.
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I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.
I love blues. My grandfather did blues.
When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don't really have the blues, but I can appreciate the honesty and the simplicity of it.
Hearing the blues changed my life.
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
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.
But my big thing was always the blues.
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.
We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music.
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