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They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film… a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.

Billy Gibbons

It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go ’round and ’round.
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Contraptions Different Mp3 Music Player Round
One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion.
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Country Night Promoted Spring Well
Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder?
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Games Play Water
Every once in awhile I’ll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
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Chords Country Found Guitar People
The blues is life itself.
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Blue Itself Life
Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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Out Rocks Roll Tunes
Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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Hurt Records Water
There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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Genre Hard Single
They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film… a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
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Film Matter Mirrors
Lightnin’ Hopkins taught us, “the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel” and Muddy Waters taught us “you don’t have to be the best one; just be a good ‘un” .. that just about says it all, always strive to be a good ‘un.
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Faster Mudy Music Taught Water
It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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Challenges Real White
Lightnin’ Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up.
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Art Believe Coffee
Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
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Amsterdam Country Experiments Way
We kind of made the best of it playing through the first set, took a break and bought him a Coke and then went on to perform for the remainder of the night. It wasn’t exactly a catastrophe but it certainly stands as legendary.
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Break Catastrophe Music Perform Playing Took
Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form – the blues.
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Blues Country Embracing English Great
Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
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Driven Process Song

They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film… a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.

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