So given those things yes, I’m introducing some new music that people haven’t really heard me do in quite this fashion.
AL JARREAUAnd there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
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I was age six or seven, and singing, “Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him,” and people smiled and pinched my cheeks till the blood vessels broke, and I knew I was doing something right.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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Until my knee said, “Uh-uh,” I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don’t like walking a lot, but I’ll push them.
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A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes.
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I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn’t noticed anything up until then.
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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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Find something you would do for free.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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It’s all background experience and listening and exposure.
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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
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