I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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.
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 blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.
The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.
When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.
The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.
I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.
I love blues. My grandfather did blues.