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There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

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.

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

I was always a closet blues player.

I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

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.