The blues is life itself.
BILLY GIBBONSIt 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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In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life’s simple pleasures.
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The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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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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It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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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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I’ve been touted for my guacamole. I’ll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare it. Restaurants have asked me about it.
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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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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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The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people’s radar, and for good reason.
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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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