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Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.

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'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

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