I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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Yeah, I do, I mean just about every word.Otis Rush
Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
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I stopped behind a lot of that business, but the blues - the blues got me back around 1980. Naw, maybe it was '82, '83, or even '85.
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I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.
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I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
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I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.
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