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.
BILLY GIBBONSDid 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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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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There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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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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The blues is life itself.
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It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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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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Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
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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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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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It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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Every once in awhile I’ll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
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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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Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
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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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