“Here’s the cool thing about blues… everybody is influenced by the blues, whether they know it or not.”
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“I think that artists like myself are uniquely positioned to affect change in our society, and music is the leading driver of culture I think.”
“I do believe that my job as an artist is to paint and reflect our times; forging soundscapes that resonate from the speakers into your soul.”
“If Paramount had not existed, there would have been a tremendous amount of talent that would have never got recorded.”
“I think that our music is very flexible.”
In the 1960s, most of our music came on 45s, those seven-inch discs that contained one song on each side. 45s were everywhere.
“Blues was underground, you know? It was kind of hard to find.”
“I didn’t have a chance to know Wolf personally, but I had a chance to sit in with Muddy a couple of times.”
It was easy to get them to agree. The hard part was the logistics of scheduling, because every one of these guys is a touring, hard working musician.
“It’s all I ever wanted to do, and I’m going to keep doing it until I can’t do it anymore.”