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Hearing the blues changed my life.

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

The first time I ever heard the blues, my parents had a stack of records that they weren't using anymore. I found them when I was ten; I didn't know what it was. But I found Lightnin' Hopkins.

I used to be a great blues singer.

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

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

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.