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Billy Gibbons

White people get nervous and speed things up. You don’t have to be in a hurry because you ain’t got nothing to gain and you ain’t got nothin’ to lose. And that’s where the groove lies.
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Lying People White
It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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Character Important Unusual
The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
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Limitless Long Potential Rivers Sea
When I was around 7 or 8 my Dad took me to a B.B. King recording session, well, that really did it. Huge and lasting impressions.
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Dad Guitar Kings
There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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Genre Hard Single
Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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Hurt Records Water
In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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Bigger Radio Tabletop
Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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Out Rocks Roll Tunes
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
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
The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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Band Enough Quitting
If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
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Helping Particular Take Time
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
No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.
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Ahead Miles No Plugged Plugging
It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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Challenges Real White
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

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