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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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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Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
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It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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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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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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It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience.
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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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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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If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
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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.
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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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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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There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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